Open an Apple Pages file on Windows

A .pages file is a document from Apple Pages. Without a Mac it won't open, but you can still get the words out.

Why .pages files won't open

Pages saves documents in Apple's own format, which Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice can't read.

Think CONVERT reads the text straight from the file in your browser, so you don't have to ask the sender to export it again.

When you might need this

• A document from a Mac userA letter, form or report someone wrote in Pages.
• School and university workCoursework written on an iPad or Mac that needs to go into Word.
• Old archivesPages files from an old Mac backup.

Key benefits

• Every paragraphAll the text, in order, paragraph by paragraph.
• Old and new PagesWorks with Pages '09 and every version since.
• No Apple accountNothing to sign in to, nothing uploaded.

How to open a .pages file

1. Open Pages to Word here and choose the .pages file.
2. Choose Word, plain text or Markdown.
3. Press Convert, check the text, and save.

Tips

• For the full layout with pictures and fonts, ask the sender to use File > Export To > Word in Pages, or open it at icloud.com if you have an Apple account.
• If a .pages file arrived as a folder or a .zip, zip it up (or open the .zip) and try again.

Questions

Tools for this job

• Pages to Word
• Convert office file
• DOCX to ODT
• Word to TXT

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