Pages 4.3 does not run on my new High Sierra 10.13.2 - No entry sign. How can I get it to work please?

Hi Nicki,

By "no entry sign," do you mean the blinking (text) insertion point seen at the end of "point" in the image below?

If so, it may mean that you have opened a Page layout template, which does not have a Text Layer into which text may be entered directly. Click the Text button in the toolbar to insert a Text box, or return to the Template Chooser and choose a (blank) Word processor template to create a word processor document where text is entered directly into the Text layer.

Regards,

Barry

PS: In newer versions of Pages (5 and 6), the Blank templates create wp documents, which include a Document Body—functionally similar to the Text Layer in version 4 and earlier.

B

Straying from the topic…

'By the way here is what I mean by a "no entry" sign'

Grouping the words with quotation marks removes ambiguity from the message.

"No entry" sign

is much clearer than

No entry sign.

The official ISO name for that symbol ( red ring with diagonal bar ) is

The standard "No entry sign" is this one:

(Generally not so fuzzy, though.)

Regards,

Barry

Reinstalling from the original retail disc is the way to go. It actually is a DVD, but that is irrelevant. Copying from a backup or other disc is fraught with problems. You are right that you need to update to 4.3. You can download the standalone updater from this page. It is a single updater to update all three iWork '09 apps to version x.3.

The v 9.3 updater for the retail disc was never available on the Mac App Store & the versions of the iWork '09 apps that were available on the Mac App Store are not the same as the DVD & the updater will not work on them. It has to do with the way the apps are installed. The Mac App Store versions are self-contained where the DVD versions install some pieces elsewhere in your Mac.

You can not just copy iWork '09 over to new Systems. You will need to use a valid Installer.

Also instead of using confusing descriptions, take screensnaps (command shift 4 and drag it over what you see) and post it here using the camera icon.

Peter

Go to the App Store and download the Pages app. That will give you the latest version available which is 6.3.1.

4.3 won't run on High Sierra.

Wrong. I use Pages 4.3 & Numbers 2.3 daily in High Sierra.

Glad you did the hard yards Barry.

I wasn't going to bother with pointing out it was the wrong name to the wrong sign.

Peter

Been thinking of creating a word randomiser App, but it would be a hard sell in today's Internet. 😁

Peter

"…but it would be a hard sell in today's Internet."

Sure would.

Not quite the same thing, but this page occasionally provides a minor gem.

http://randomtextgenerator.com/

Barry