File extension pages: what to open?

Pages is a file that is used on Apple devices and the Mac OS. It is a widely used document format. In this article, we'll look at how to open Pages.

General description of the format

Categorically the pages belong to the category of text files. It is created in the Apple Pages page layout program, which allows you to create both basic text documents and multipage pages. Multiple pages can include:

• Text information;
• Graphic information, including illustrations, diagrams, graphs and tables.

Depending on the information, the Apple-file is converted into Windows-formats of text documents or images.

Documents are created either from an empty sheet, or from a template. The Apple Pages program is part of the iWork software suite - an analog of the Windows software suite. Also in this complex are applications for creating presentations and tables. Next, consider how to open the pages extension using Mac and Windows operating systems.

Mac OS

To open the pages file by the "apple" operating system, use the Apple Pages program mentioned above. This software is the simplest answer to the question of how to open the pages file. The document for opening can be on the computer, in the cloud storage system of Apple, iCloud Drive or on file sharing (for example, Dropbox). In addition, Apple Pages works with connected servers.

For correct operation, you need to open the pages with the version of the program in which the document was created.

Advantage: iWork is also popular among Mac OS users like Microsoft Office on Windows, so there's no need to search long for pages to open if you have an Apple device at hand.

If the question continues to be open, use the Apple TextEdit program - this is also a word processor, available from version 10.3 of the Mac OS. Works also with the formats xml, html, rtf.

Disadvantage: Opens simple text formats, but does not save changes to them.

Windows OS: 1 way

Surprisingly, there are more ways to open the "apple" format on Windows than on a Mac.

Got and do not know what to open the pages? Follow these instructions:

• Create a copy of the file (this is an optional, but recommended action, so as not to lose the original file);
• Click on the file and call the context menu (right mouse button);
• Select "Rename";
• Erase all the information in the file name after the point - the one where the extension is specified;
• Write instead of it a new extension - zip;
• Save the changes.

Now you have an archive file with a pdf document. Unpack it using WinRar or another archiver and open it through a browser or other suitable software (for example, Adobe Reader).

Also in the archive can be used in a multi-page image in jpg format.

Disadvantages of the method:

• The document can be read by this method, but it can not be edited (although it is possible to convert pdf to doc or txt if there are no pictures in it, and to change the content in other formats);
• The formatting of the original document may be distorted.

Windows OS: 2 way

If you are looking for something to open the pages, and do not want to perform unnecessary actions, but just click on the "Open" button, use the Ez Freeware Free Opener program. This is a functional software that opens a whole range of formats, including pages.

There is no Russian language in Free Opener, but the interface is also understandable in English.

The drawback, as in the previous method, is that the file can not be edited.

In order to bypass it, ask the person who sent you to save the document in an accessible format. Apple Pages has the function of exporting to Windows-formats, including doc and pdf.