Mojave will be 64 bits (whatever that means).
Pages 4.3 is 32 bits, as I understand.
is there a possibility that pages 4.3 will work under Mojave?
If not, is it possible to install Mojave on a partition?
iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13), 2.7 GHz intel i5 core 27 inch
Mojave is not released yet, so we can't say. Probably it will break Pages 4.3
You can certainly create a separate bootable partition or simply install whichever macOS you want onto a USB stick or external Hard Drive.
Just because you own a Mac, and have reached a sexagenarian age — places no restriction on using the great variety of third-party Mac word processing applications that are available to you in the Mac App Store. You shoud determine what applications with free trials from the vendor site — offer the features that you require at this point in your life.
If you have an older Mac running either Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks, then you can run Pages '09 v4.1 (10.6.6 — 10.7.3), or Pages '09 v4.3 (10.7.4 — 10.9.5) with all functionality present. It was Yosemite and later where Pages '09 v4.3 began to suffer functionality loss.
The second paragraph spares you document export to Word, and the learning curve of a different word processing application.
Pages '09 will work under Mojave except Mojave will not allow you to open '09 files! This is true even if you open with the latest pages and export as '09 file. Apple is clearly trying to force us off of '09, even though the current version of Pages *****. When I open my '09 files with the latest Pages version, the figure formatting is completely screwed up, forcing me to reformat. Apple could fix this problem easily, but they apparently are not interested. They are arrogant, believing that they know what's best for ALL writers. They don't.
Sorry, bad advice - try this one: https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html
And I removed the associated Pages '09 v4.3 .plist files from ~/Library/Preferences, followed by a reboot — without any change. Pages '09 v4.3 still refuses to open or create new documents on Mojave.
It seems this thread is coming to an end.
Maybe I wil come back to it when there are som updates to Mojave and tests show that Pages works properly.
Thank you for your time
When trying to open any of my documents I get a popup simply saying that the document couldn't be opened. I spoke with Apple Support yesterday and they didn't seem to know what was going on. They didn't even reference the 32 bit vs 64 bit thing.
Yeah I can confirm this is happening too - can't open Pages '09 documents (in Pages '09) after upgrading. I'm still using '09 because I really like/use the Outline mode which was removed in newer versions of the app. Dang, looks like I've got to go back to using Word. Feh.
I have my iWork '09 install disc, and an outboard disc player. Is there any reason, do you think, trying to reinstall it? I mean, if Mojave doesn't support 32 bit, it doesn't. And I don't want to screw things up more than they are...
"I Am still hoping that an upgrade of iWork will show these features."
Well, good luck with that. iWork was last upgraded when? And then only to remove functionality. I grow less enamoured with Apple by the day. It's all about watches and phones. I fully expect them to abandon the computer business in the near future.
patrickindenver wrote:
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).
It states that it still does. Also that this is the last version.
True, it is buying time. I do not mind.
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.
John Dotson wrote:
Yep, Pages '09 will not create any new documents or open previous work. **** I wish I had a heads-up!
Numbers '09 seems to work flawlessly on new and old docs.
Sure wish Apple would add mail-merge back to the current Pages... it's gonna pain me to switch to Word.
good to hear about Numbers!! that makes a difference.
I am very used to the interface and small details off pages 4.3 and will probably never get used to the newer version. Styles and mail merge is what I will miss the most.
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)
sounds very plausible. fingers crossed indeed. I will wait a bit before updating! (I was pre-informed this time!)
Does anyone know if Apple monitors these discussions and implement/correct the hiccups we are finding?
Would be nice!
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thanks for the correction, I was already on it.
Maybe, … if we all write a message, it might help?
this is what I wrote:
"I am writing this in relation to the reported functionality (or lack thereof) of Pages 4.3 of the iWork '09).
Mojave is said to be the last version to support 32-bit applications.
Although this might be so, pages seems to fail this tasking, as reported in the discussion
Also it is reported that Numbers from the same suit does work fine.
Conclusion in this is that maybe this is something that was overlooked in the first version of Mojave? and maybe there can be a work-around??
Hope to hear from you. You answer will help me decide as to install Mojave now or delay it.
I am still hoping that som of the features from iWork '09, missing in the current version will re-appear, such als Mailmerge, styles and categories …"
pages 4.3 and Mojave …
