How to Open Apple Pages Documents on a Windows 10 PC

Pages is Apple’s equivalent to Microsoft Word and is part of the iWork suite which also includes Numbers (like Excel) and Keynote (like PowerPoint).

In 2017, the company made the suite available for free for Mac computers and iOS devices. What this means is that a lot more users are probably using it rather than opening their wallet for a Microsoft Office 365 subscription.

That also means users of Microsoft’s suite are likely to come across an Apple Pages document occasionally. If you need to view it, you have a few options. The easiest option is to upload the file to Apple’s iCloud, which is great if you use Apple’s service.

But what if you don’t use iCloud? Here is a look at how you can open and view Apple Pages, Numbers and even Keynote files on Windows 10.

View Apple Pages, Numbers, or Keynote Documents on Windows 10

If you don’t have access to a Mac, you can view the first page of a Pages document, the first worksheet of a Numbers workbook, and the first slide of a Keynote presentation. We’ll use a Pages document as an example.

When you try to open an Apple Pages file in Microsoft Word, you’ll see the following dialog box.

When you click OK, yet another dialog box displays.

Whether you click Yes or No, a third dialog box displays. Microsoft really wants you to know that it can’t open the file.

Click OK to finally get out of this process.

The interesting thing about Pages documents is that they are compressed files. Simply change the extension of the file to .zip to view the contents of the file.

When you change the file extension to .zip, the following confirmation dialog box displays. Click Yes to change the extension.

You can use any zip program, like 7-Zip, to extract the files from the Pages file.

When you extract the .zip file, you’ll find several image files. Open the largest image file in your favorite image editor to view the first page of the document.

You can insert the image file into a Word document, but you won’t be able to edit the document. In the next section, we’ll show you how to convert Pages documents to Word documents, as well as Numbers files to Excel files and Keynote files to PowerPoint files.

Convert Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Documents to Microsoft Office Documents on Your Mac

The previous method works if all you want to do is read the first page, worksheet, or slide in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote documents. But if you want to view more of the documents or edit them, you need to convert them to Microsoft Office documents.

If you have access to a Mac, you can convert Pages documents to Word documents in the Pages app. The process for converting Numbers or Keynote documents is the same.

Open the document you want to convert in Pages and then go to File > Export To > Word.

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The Word tab at the top of the Export Your Document dialog box should be active.

To add a password to the document, check the Require password to open box. Enter a password in the Password box and again in the Verify box. Type a hint in the Password Hint box to remind yourself of your password.

Under Advanced Options, the Format drop-down list allows you to save the document as a .docx file (Office 2007 and later) or a .doc file (Office 2003 or earlier).

Click Next.

Enter a name for the Word document in the Save As box and select where you want to save it.

Then, click Export.

Convert Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Documents to Microsoft Office Documents on Your iPhone or iPad

If you don’t have a Mac, but you have an iPhone or iPad, you can use your iOS device to convert your iWorks document to a Microsoft Office document.

Again, we’re going to use a Pages document as an example.

Open your document in Pages on your iPhone or iPad and tap the menu button (three horizontal dots) in the upper-right corner of the screen.

On the More screen, tap Export.

The Export screen offers four formats to convert your document to. You can choose any of these formats, but for this example, we’re going to use Word.

So, tap Word.

You’ll see the Choose How to Send link at the bottom of the Export screen.

You don’t need to tap the link. The Share screen automatically displays.

Tap the method you want to use to transfer the converted file to your Windows PC. We used Dropbox.

Convert Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Documents to Microsoft Office Documents Using iCloud

If you don’t own an Apple device, you can set up a free iCloud account or log into an existing account. Then, open the appropriate app for the document you want to convert.

The easiest way to upload a document to your iCloud account is to drag it onto the browser tab where you’re running the iWork app in your account.

Once the document is uploaded, click the menu button (three horizontal dots) in the lower-right corner of the document icon and select Download a Copy.

On the Choose a download format dialog box, click Word. This allows you to edit the document on your Windows PC.

If all you want to do is view the document (beyond just the first page), you can choose PDF or EPUB.

The iWork app in your iCloud account creates a file for download.

When the Opening dialog box displays, select Save File and click OK.

Or, if you want to view it right away, choose Open with. Microsoft Word should be chosen in the drop-down list automatically.

If you’re saving the file, select a location and enter a name in the File name box. Make sure you keep the .docx extension.

Then, click Save.

Don’t Send Back Those Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Files

You have a few options for converting Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files so you can view them, and even edit them, on a Windows 10 PC. And you don’t even need to have a Mac.

Do you use Pages, Numbers, or Keynote on a Mac or iOS device? Or do you use Office programs on a Mac or Windows PC? Which do you prefer and why? Share your thoughts and opinions with us in the comments below!

Как открыть файлы PAGES

Файлы с расширением PAGES более привычны пользователям продукции Apple — это основной формат текстового редактора от купертиновской компании, который является аналогом Microsoft Word. Сегодня мы расскажем, как открывать подобные файлы в Виндовс.

Открываем файлы PAGES

Документы с таким расширением принадлежат к iWork Pages — компоненту офисного пакета от Эппл. Это проприетарный формат, ограниченный Mac OS X и iOS, потому напрямую открыть его в Windows не получится: подходящих программ попросту не существует. Впрочем, определённым путём открыть PAGES в операционных системах, отличных от детищ Apple, всё-таки можно. Дело в том, что PAGES-файл, по сути, представляет собой архив, в котором хранятся данные форматирования документа. Следовательно, расширение файла можно сменить на ZIP, а уже потом попробовать открыть его в архиваторе. Процедура выглядит следующим образом:

Активируйте показ расширений для файлов.
Windows 7: откройте «Мой компьютер» и щёлкните мышью по «Упорядочить». Во всплывающем меню выберите «Параметры папок и поиска».

В открывшемся окошке перейдите на вкладку «Вид». Прокрутите список и снимите галочку напротив «Скрывать расширения для зарегистрированных типов файлов» и нажмите «Применить»;

После этих действий расширение файла PAGES станет доступно для редактирования. Щелкните по документу правой кнопкой мыши и в контекстном меню выберите «Переименовать».

Переместите курсор в самый конец имени файла, используя мышь или клавиши-стрелки, и выделите расширение. Нажмите на клавиатуре Backspace или Delete, чтобы удалить его.

Файл будет распознан как архив с данными. Соответственно, его получится открыть любым подходящим архиватором — например, WinRAR или 7-ZIP.

1. Откройте программу и воспользуйтесь встроенным файловым менеджером, чтобы добраться к папке с PAGES-документом, которому изменили расширение на ZIP.

Дважды щелкните мышью по документу, чтобы его открыть. Содержимое архива будет доступно для просмотра, разархивирования или редактирования

Если вас не устраивает ВинРАР, можно использовать любой другой подходящий архиватор.

Как видим, чтобы открыть файл с расширением PAGES, вовсе не обязательно владеть компьютером или мобильным гаджетом от Apple.
Правда, стоит понимать, что такой подход имеет определенные ограничения.

How Do I Open Mac’s .pages File Format On Microsoft Windows?

By SK 29 comments Last updated February 26, 2019

Many iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch owners do not have access to Macs and instead use Windows computers at home or especially, at work.

There are times when we need to edit or review Apple’s native pages file format on Microsoft Windows.

If you try to open a pages document on your Windows PC using Word (or a similar program,) you quickly discover that Word (and similar) does not recognize Apple’s word processing format. .pages files.

Apple .pages are not supported on Windows so you cannot open them using Microsoft Word.

So if you want to show or edit a .pages file on Windows PC, you get errors, and Windows asks you to choose an app to open the file.

So what can you do to review and even edit a pages file on your work or home Windows machine?

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Quick Tips

Try these quick tips to open your Mac .pages documents on your Windows machine

• Change the extension to zip and try opening it with Microsoft Office or a PDF or JPEG viewer–this works well for older versions of .pages, not so well for newer versions
• Export file from Pages on your Mac or iOS device as a word document
• Visit iCloud’s website and upload the pages document and convert it to Word inside iCloud
• Use third-party converters like CloudConvert or Zamzar to process your .pages into Word, PDF, and other formats

How Do I Open Pages on a Windows PC Using Zip Compression?

Believe it or not, .pages files are basically .zip files with a JPEG thumbnail file of the first page and an optional PDF file of the entire document.

It’s this similarity that allows us to open .pages files on our Windows machines.

#1 Allow Windows To Show File Extensions

Make sure you have your file extensions visible in Windows so you can change the extension of the pages document.

To make file extensions visible, go to Folder Options > View > Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types

#2 Add The .ZIP Extension

1. Save a copy of the file (.pages file) locally on your PC so you have two copies of the same file–one to work with and one for backup
2. Change the name of ONE those copies by right-clicking on the file
3. Choose Rename
4. Delete the .pages extension and replace with .zip and press enter to save
5. For example, let’s say your file name is appletoolbox.pages. Then your file’s name is appletoolbox.zip

#3 Unzip The File

Open (unzip) that zip file, and you can now see the content.

Usually, you’ll find the following three files:

1. QuickLook (File Folder)
2. buildVersionHistory.plist
3. index.xml

# 4 Peek Inside the QuickLook folder

1. There, you hopefully find a PDF file with the same name as the original pages file or named Preview. You may also see a JPEG file named Thumbnail
2. The JPEG Thumbnail file shows the first page only while the PDF contains the entire document

Don’t See a PDF Inside the QuickLook Folder?

Depending on how the .pages file was saved, there may not be a pdf file.

If you don’t find a pdf inside QuickLook, try another method in this article or use a third-party conversion tool (search for convert .pages to your preferred format like .docx.)

Need Only to view and/or print the file?

• After saving your file as a .zip, just right-click to unzip the contents. Remember, locate the preview.pdf file in the QuickLook folder
• If you choose to print the JPEG file directly, you can just select the Print to PDF option
• If you are printing from the photos app, it defaults to Microsoft Print to PDF

#5 Convert The Pages Zipped File to a Docx or Doc File

• First, try and open your .zip file directly in Microsoft Word or Office–see if it recognizes the file and unzips it without any further intervention
• If Office/Word doesn’t recognize it AND you want to edit the .pages file, open the PDF file inside of the QuickLook folder and then save it as a PDF first, and finally convert it to a Word document
• The PDF should contain your document’s complete content. If you also have Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can save a PDF as a Word Document

Don’t See a QuickLook Folder At All?

It means the version of Pages that created the document does not support QuickLook and therefore, does not create the QuickLook folder.

To work with your .pages file, try the tips to export your .pages file using other methods outlined in this article.

If You Need to Edit Your .pages File, Export It

1. Open Pages
2. Click File
3. Scroll down to Export
4. Click the OK
5. Select the Word format or whatever format you prefer (RTF is a good universal format)
6. Choose Next
7. Save your file, so that Microsoft Word opens it on your Windows PC

That way, your document is fully formatted for Word, Mac or Windows. When you save as RTF (Rich Text Format), most of your formatting remains in the document.

No Current Access to a Mac for Exporting?

Open .pages on Windows Using iCloud’s Website

1. Create an Apple ID and iCloud account if you don’t already have one
2. Open iCloud’s website in a browser (like Safari or Chrome) and select Pages
3. Drag and drop your pages document or choose Upload Document under Settings (Gear icon)
4. Once uploaded, right-click on the document and select Download a copy
5. Choose your format from Pages, Word, PDF, or ePub
6. iCloud creates a file for download
7. Save the File to your browser’s default download location

Cool Tip! You can also copy/paste the data from the Pages File in iCloud to Word in Windows (or whatever word processing program you use on your Windows PC.)

Note: These same methods work for opening .pages files without iWork on Mac

Or Export a Pages File Using Your iPhone or iPad (iOS)

• Open Pages App on your iPhone/iPad
• Find the Pages document you want to use on your Windows PC
• Tap the three dots in the upper-right corner
• Select Export from the list of options
• Choose a format from the available list (we recommend Word or PDF)
  • iOS creates your document–this may take some time depending on length and media used (like photos/videos)
• From the Share Sheet, select how you want to send your document (Mail, Message and so forth)
• Send the document via your chosen method

How To Convert .pages For Windows With Online Tools

If you were unable to use the zip compression to open your .pages file or don’t have access to Apple’s iCloud site or a Mac/iDevice to make the conversion for you, there are options!

Tools like Zamzar and CloudCoverter (to name a few) offer reformatting services to open pages files for Windows users. Depending on your file size and/or the number of files needing conversion, the service may be free or paid.

Simply upload your .pages document, select the format you want for your Windows PC, and let the converter do the dirty work for you!

Some of these services require an email address or registration. Additionally, some allow you to upload documents from a variety of sources including DropBox, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, and Box or even adding from a URL.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips

• Use Google Docs to convert
  • Open your Google account (or sign up if you don’t have one)
  • After you sign in, go to Google Docs
  • Upload your .pages file to Google Docs
  • Click Open with and select Cloud Converter
• Instead, save your document as an RTF. The RTF format can be read by both Windows and Mac computers
• I use the Windows office suite Libreoffice (it’s free!) And it opens Pages files without problem on either Windows or Linux computers!
• I resolved this by sending it to my iPhone and then saving in a different format
• Find a pages to docx or doc converter online like CloudConvert, Zamzar, or LightPDF to name a few. Upload your file and watch it convert. Don’t upload any document that contains confidential information to these converters. For everything else (non-confidential) they are great
• Save the file locally on your Windows computer. Right-click on the file and select rename. Remove .pages extension and enter .zip as the extension and press enter. Open the zip file, and it should allow you to open the file and its contents.
• This is my method to edit pages files on my Windows Laptop
  • First, make sure you see file extensions. Go to Windows File Explorer, on the View Ribbon, and check the box marked File Name Extensions
  • Right-click on the .pages file and choose Rename
  • Delete the .pages extension and replace it with the .zip extension
  • Extract the .zip file
  • You should now be able to open and access the Pages format within Microsoft Word, Office, or similar
  • To convert to PDF, use the Microsoft Print to PDF function

Obsessed with tech since the early arrival of A/UX on Apple, Sudz (SK) is responsible for the editorial direction of AppleToolBox. He is based out of Los Angeles, CA.

Sudz specializes in covering all things macOS, having reviewed dozens of OS X and macOS developments over the years.

In a former life, Sudz worked helping Fortune 100 companies with their technology and business transformation aspirations.