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Q: How can I unlock an email attachment sent through pages
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Jul 28, 2016 9:21 AMby VikingOSX,- You can password protect a Pages document, but you cannot lock the document from within Pages, though it can be locked from the Finder's Get Info window. Looks like the following. It can be opened by the correct version of Pages, but attempts to edit the content will be challenged:
If you sent that Pages document to a recipient without a compatible version of Pages to open it, then it is effectively unopenable. If you are document sharing from Pages, it is better to send PDF or Word, as no one will have issues opening those formats, and you avoid guess work. - You save your Pages document, and then click the yellow traffic light on the document title bar to send the open document to the Dock as an icon. The Dock Preferences also provide for the file to disappear into the Pages application icon on the Dock, where you can right-click to see a diamond symbol next to its name on the menu. There is nothing about this process that prevents you from running other applications, including Safari.
- You can open multiple new, or existing Pages documents concurrently — even instances of the same document providing it is in different directory locations. Understand that the first thing that you do is to save a new document, as the initial save starts the document autosave feature (every 10 seconds).
- You can password protect a Pages document, but you cannot lock the document from within Pages, though it can be locked from the Finder's Get Info window. Looks like the following. It can be opened by the correct version of Pages, but attempts to edit the content will be challenged:
