Pages: Supported file formats

Nov 05 2013 Posted in Apple Portable Computers

Learn which file formats you can use with Pages for Mac (5.0 or later) and Pages for iOS (2.0 or later).

Pages for Mac and Pages for iOS support importing:

Pages ’09 (4.0 or later)
Microsoft Word - Office Open XML (.docx) and Office 97 or later (.doc)
Plain Text files (.txt)

Pages for Mac (5.0 or later) supports exporting:

Pages ’09 (4.0 or later)
Microsoft Word (.docx and .doc)
PDF
Plain Text files (.txt)
ePub

Pages for iOS (2.0 or later) supports exporting:

Microsoft Word¹
PDF
ePub

¹ The extension for a document you export in Microsoft Word format is determined by its password protection. If you turn on password protection then ".doc" is used, otherwise ".docx" is used.

Additional Information

Pages for Mac (5.0 or later) and Pages for iOS (2.0 or later) use the same file format. Documents you create or work on in Pages for Mac can be opened in Pages for iOS and vice versa.

If you'd like to work with Rich Text Format (.rtf) documents, you can copy and paste the content into a new Pages document and it will retain its formatting.

Last Modified: Nov 5, 2013

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