How can I remove the "ZIP" file extension from a pages document that I am trying to send by email. The document can not be opened by the receiver and therefore can't be printed out. Thank You.
Mac mini, iOS 9.1
The receiver, on OS X, simply needs to save that email attachment, and then in the Finder, double-click it to unzip it. On an iPhone, clicking the Pages document attachment will automatically unzip and open the document, providing that Pages for IOS is installed. Pages documents are incompatible with MS Office on PCs or Macs.
As Viking points out, the recipient probably just doesn't have Pages installed to read the .pages file, which looks like a .zipped file to them.
Export a copy to Word .docx so they can open it, presuming they have Word or a clone like LibreOffice.
Peter
I am sorry that I didn't include more information. I am creating the document in Pages and when I save it, it automatically saves with the ".ZIP" extension. If I try to save it under a ".doc" extension, it merely adds the .doc and then adds .pages.zip to the end. So I requested that the receiver of the document I created by Email try to save it to their MicroSoft Documents with the ".doc" extension and try to open it that way to print it. I haven't heard back from them as yet.
Thank you so much for getting back to me...it helps knowing there are people out there that I can rely on.
No version of Pages for OS X places a .zip extension on Pages documents saved to the local boot drive. If you are adding this extension, stop. The standard extension is .pages, and it is already a zip file that has been renamed with the .pages extension. If you are using Pages v5 thru v5.2.2 on Mavericks, the Pages document is not a zip-compressed, and renamed file, but rather a special Disk folder that only the Apple Finder knows how to make look like a document to Pages.
You cannot change the document format of a Pages document, or any other document by changing, or appending other extensions to it. You must use the File menu : Export To : PDF, Word, etc. Do not append .zip or anything else to the file extension. Word .docx documents are also compressed, zip archives that have been renamed with the .docx extension.
Are you saving to a Dropbox or Microsoft One Drive filesystem? Where are you saving the Pages document too?
How can I remove the ".zip" from a file that I have created? When I send the document through email they can not open it to print it.
