Share via email function missing in Pages

Lisa,

Are you suggesting that when you select the Share icon in the Toolbar, that the Send a Copy submenu does not provide an Email menu item? This would drop a sheet down from the Pages Toolbar offering you a document type (including Word) choice for automatic attachment to the following Email compose pop-up.

Hello LisiAnni,

The Share feature was not removed. It is located in the toolbar and looks like a box with an arrow pointing up next to the tips button. Take a look at the links below for how to do this and if you are missing that button, you can add it back by following the second article.

Send a copy of a document

http://help.apple.com/pages/mac/5.5/#/tan5394fbf0f

Customize the toolbar

http://help.apple.com/pages/mac/5.5/#/tanafa2f718a

Regards,

-Norm G.

Just be cautious, this now uses iCloud Drive and potentially can lock you out of everything but Yosemite and iOS 8.

I haven't tested whether this also means the recipient needs iCloud Drive, I hope not or it is really useless.

Like everything in the Cloud you are putting your work and trust in someone else's hands and people are already reporting their files gone missing. Who do you talk to and what do you do to get them back?

Peter

Lisa Ann,

It is frustrating to me that we are both on Yosemite, and you clearly have a different implementation of Pages from mine. With or without iCloud Drive disabled, you should have the third menu item, Send a Copy, and its submenu that allows Email document attachment — and it is missing. Apple. Grrrrrrr!

I don't have an answer for you that can solve your current challenge. One possible solution is to systematically move from Pages to another word processing solution — one with better features, vendor commitment, and document interchange.

Hey Lisa Ann,

That is weird as you should have a Send a Copy section that would have the share options for Mail, Messages and AirDrop. I would recommend contacting Apple Support for some additional troubleshooting. One last bit of troubleshooting is to check to make sure you can download Pages again. If you can, delete the app and then install it again from the Mac App Store.

Contact Apple Support

https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action

-Norm G.

Of course, your premise fuels the question: If I redownload Pages v5.5.1, will it then reinstate the 100 + missing features that were never added back in from Pages ’09? 😉

This link may have a solution.

The problem Norm is that you would be getting Pages 5.5.1 all over again.

Isn't that the heart of the problem?

Peter

Lisa Ann,

I was having the same problem and wondering what was going on. When you update to Yosemite, I just discovered that now you have two pages: the one that looks like the ink well which does not let you share via email. Then there is a new version of pages if you go into your applications, which does exactly what the first person to comment to you said. There is a little box where you can send emails.

Somehow the two pages did not merge with the update.

Thank you very much Jeff. This completely solved the problem with the missing "send a copy" option in the "share" menu on the toolbar.

Wonder what's happening there. It worked for me too. Thanks for sharing guys. Problem solved for me since I had the same issue.

Different Lisa, same problem. Your response fixed it. Thanks.

Menu > Share > Send a Copy > Mail

Peter

Hi Lisa D,

Just to clarify, Revyrev1 wrote:

now you have two pages: the one that looks like the ink well which does not let you share via email. Then there is a new version of pages if you go into your applications, which does exactly what the first person to comment to you said.

Applications folder:

In OS X El Capitan (and I think OS X Yosemite) Pages '09 no longer supports Share > Send Via Mail. Pages '09 is now 'orphanware'.

In Pages 5.6.2 Share > Send a Copy > Mail does work.

Regards,

Ian.