pages 4.3 and Mojave …

I reiterate. I have my install disc. Is it worth trying in reinstall it? If Mojave does not support 32 bit apps, it doesn't. It seems clear. And even if it did, for how long? I think it's over (unless one simply stays on an old OS).

Viking, Guess users are up the proverbial creek.

Just reinstalled iWork '09 from original installation disk and also the update - same results - Pages opens but no love on documents either new or previously created.

Since Numbers '09 still works, I am going to hold on for a few days to see if a fix is forthcoming. Maybe it was just an oversight...

Thanks for the tip, I did keep my fingers crossed.

really a bummer. Pages '09 really nailed it in terms of functionality + ease-of-use. The newer stuff just doesn't have enough baseline features for me to use vs. Word.

(Meanwhile, Word in office 365 drives me NUTS in that outline mode doesn't 'remember' the collapse state of everything when you save/reopen a document... arrgh)

Apple is not going to do anything with feedback advising that Pages '09 does not work. As far as Apple is concerned, it was killed off in Fall 2013.

Even if feedback were sent to the macOS product team, they would also ignore it because it is a long, retired application suite. If this Pages '09 behavior were occurring with another currently supported application, then it might get their attention.

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I've accepted our fate. I'm now working (without enthusiasm) with Pages 7.2. Again, I have great reservations about how Apple is going about these things.

I think it comes down to the fact that that iDevices are their cash cow and everything else (like computers?) are extraneous.

Tim's gilded mansion becomes less and less accomodating. For me, at least.

I had the same spinning wheel of death. I deleted the Pages preferences in the user folder and voilà, it works again. Let's see for how long but it certainly looks promising as I prefer the 4.3 Pages over the new version for its layout capabilities...

Wolf

Update:

And funny enough after one successful opening of a big document and closing it it refuses to open again...

So it would appear. RIP.

And I come ever closer to feeling compelled to leave "the walled garden". I'm in my 60's, and I am only too well aware that I am not their desired demographic. They court the young, enthralled with iToys. I get it. I accept it. That's the way it is. I really do think that Apple wants (and intends to) get out of the computer business altogether, rather sooner than later. People get irritated when you invoke the "well, when Steve was alive..." trope, but there is an element of truth to it. Things started to change rather quickly after he died, and so they continue to do. I came to the Mac late (2010), but it is apparent that things have changed a great deal in that time. If Apple updates the iMac this year, I'll probably buy one. But if not I think I will look elsewhere. And don't even get me started on the ******* phone. I was hoping that there would be a new itineration of the SE because I don't want a phablet. But that's not going to happen. As far as Apple is concerned, I'm a dinosaur on the way to extiction, and I don't matter. I get it. Believe me, I get it.

I feel the same way and much prefer the earlier version of iWork. It would be nice if Apple would allow users to keep the look and functionality of prior versions if they choose. I can't quite understand the benefits of the newer iWork if you are working on a laptop/desktop.

I think what is happening is that, eventually, MacOS and iOs will fold into one system, with the emphasis on iOS because that's where the money is. It simply is. I fully foresee Apple getting out of the computer business entirely. The audience they are courting don't care about computers. iToys. And Apple, being Apple (particularly Tim's Apple) is all about the money to the near total-exclusion of everything else.

Apple has sold it's soul, if it ever had one.

If it were any other company it would be "who cares, business as usual". But Apple once did (and continues to) present itself as "different and human and visionary", none of which they are any longer. It's money, money, and money, to the exclusion of all else. I will probably, like the lazy sucker that I am, buy a new iMac if they are announced this month, simply because for me that is the easiest thing to do at this point. I don't want to go back. But I seriously doubt that my next phone (I am still using a 6S) will be an iPhone. I hope it isn't. When I was first drawn into the fold I quickly became the most absurdly enthusiastic convert imaginable, but a lot has happened in eight years...