Possible to downgrade to Pages 5.2?

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Possible to downgrade to Pages 5.2?

I upgraded to Yosemite, and then Pages 5.5. Now I discover that if I save a document, no one in my company who is still on Mavericks can open it. Since most of our company cannot upgrade to Yosemite yet (due to major bricking issues that happen with Profiles managed by Mavericks OS X Server), we're in a nasty situation. Is there any way to downgrade Pages to 5.2? My only other option is restore from a pre-Yosemite time capsule backup, and lose several days of work......

Posted on Oct 22, 2014 1:20 PM

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VikingOSX

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Oct 22, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Devon Hillard

Pages v5.5 is required for Yosemite, and there is no downgrade to v5.2.2. However, you have three potential alternatives:

Export to Pages ’09
Export to Word .docx (or .doc)
Run Pages ’09 v4.3 on Yosemite

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Devon Hillard Author

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Oct 22, 2014 1:55 PM in response to VikingOSX

I did the export to '09, however that appears to have lost a great deal of formatting and images.

MS Word basically means our whole company would have to move to using MS Word, since advanced formatting/formulas don't translate back and forth.

And Pages '09 won't open our existing hundreds (or thousands) of Pages 5.2 documents in DropBox.

I'm really frustrated that there wasn't any clear warning that 5.5 wasn't compatible with 5.2, and that 5.5 wouldn't be released for Mavericks:( Ugh. I guess I'll have to restore from a pre-Yosemite backup:(

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Oct 22, 2014 4:04 PM in response to Devon Hillard

Apple is disconnected from the end user, and corporate document architectures. A warning about 5.5 .vs. 5.2.2 would have been fitting and nice, but not on their radar, anymore than the document architecture warning from Pages ’09 v4.3 to v5.0.

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Asu

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Oct 23, 2014 12:22 AM in response to VikingOSX

Apple hasn't been able to put together a decent productivity bundle since ClarisWorks.

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Dec 13, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Devon Hillard

In Pages 5.5 (Yosemite version), click file on menu bar and save file as Package instead of Single File. This allows it to remain compatibility with Pages 5.2 (Mavericks version).

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Dec 13, 2014 7:55 AM in response to VikingOSX

Update to previous post in this thread.

There is Pages v5.5.1 document compatibility with Pages v5.2.2 on Mavericks. See my Dec. 13 post how Apple has provided for this feature absent in Pages v5.5.

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Answer 7

Dec 13, 2014 7:56 AM in response to applefans

You will need v5.5.1 for this Change File Type to actually work. It was inoperable for me in v5.5.

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Dec 22, 2014 3:58 PM in response to VikingOSX

I'M also having HUGE issues sharing documents created in latest Pages with previous editions, and also with myriad windows formats - I need to share things with fellows students and lecturers at Uni, whilst retaining all formatting, fonts, etc.... It's doing my head in - any sign of an update or easy workaround that doesn't involve sending multiple formats to everyone and hoping they can decipher at least something??

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Dec 22, 2014 5:30 PM in response to asaltydog

Use Word in Office for Mac 2011 update 14.4.7. This is the only true cross-platform, compatible answer using native .docx formats instead of bloated Pages translations and exports that are guesswork.

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Dec 22, 2014 6:36 PM in response to Devon Hillard

No warning after what they did with the original Pages 5 and each minor upgrade thereafter?

It was the source of endless discussion here and most of the websites I've seen discussing Pages 5.

No wonder Apple gets away with everything.

Peter

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Hagar57

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Jan 14, 2015 2:55 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Just got a new MacBookAir for one of my students and guess what: whatever she writes in Pages cannot be opened by me and any other of my students. Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrott? Are they trying to sink Pages deliberately? I hate Word with a passion and I switched to Pages in its first incarnation directly from MacWritePro. I feel however, that I will not be able to justify Pages as our word processor anymore. The last usable update was in 2009!

With all the issues still haunting Yosemite, there is no way that we can upgrade the other Macs yet. Making Pages a freeware does not mean they don't have to think of their customers' needs when developing it. I suggest to switch to two-year OS upgrade intervals and to getting things right instead.

Okay, I'm seriously ticked off. This means I will trade in the MBA and not replace any hardware any time soon (I'm running 22 Macs here, 8 were up for replacement). Happy?

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