How do I attach a document from Pages to an e-mail

Will the recipients of that Pages document have access to Pages, or is it strictly an MS Word audience?

If the latter, export the Pages document to Word, and save to your Desktop, and then tell Outlook to look on your Desktop for that Word document to attach ... or, drag and drop the Word document onto your One Drive, and attach from there with Outlook.

I suspect that you are using an unexpanded Save/Save As.../Export to dialog that runs home to iCloud because it remembers that was the last save location.

If your default panel from the last pararagraph looks like the following, then click on the arrow in the red circle to expand the dialog, and choose your Desktop, or local Documents folder, instead of iCloud Drive.

Susan,

It's probably easiest to do this within Pages. Go to the Share menu and select Send a Copy > Mail.

You'll be given a choice of formats in which to email your document. In version 6.2, this consists of Pages, PDF, Word, Plain text, RTF and ePub. As Peter suggests, you're generally well advised to select a more universal format, such as PDF or Word (.docx), to be sure the recipient can open it.

You'll also have a chance, when the Mail window opens, to compose your email in the usual manner.

Cheers

Sure. Pages will open the Mail application, and attach the Pages document. But ... if Outlook is the principal mail agent, then Apple mail may not have been configured with email accounts yet, and the attachment is academic.

Susanox needs to tell us more about her circumstances, including if she is using Outlook, than she has shared thus far.

Keep this in mind for the future.

If you send a Word .docx document, all users can open it, even the Pages users.

If you send a Pages document, then anyone on the Mac side still using Pages '09 cannot open a Pages v5 or later document, and those using Pages v5 on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) cannot open Pages v5.5.3 or later documents. MS Word simply cannot open a Pages document at all.

Can't navigate to iCloud?

Are you sure you want to attach whatever version Pages document you are talking about? Very few people can read or open them.

Peter

PS your MacBook is not running iOS 10.3

But what if their mail user agent is Outlook, and not Apple Mail? Clue train: One Drive. Pages is not going to automatically launch and attach a document to Outlook. Questions are the answers.

What does Pages do in this instance? Open the Mail app anyway? Would this not work, for some reason?

(I do like "Questions are the answers." I'll remember that.)