Converting a PAGES file to WORD (DOCX)

Pages is an office program designed by Apple for their own devices, such as the iPhone, iPad, iMac and Macbook. It complements other Apple office programs such as Numbers and Keynote.

The software is similar to what you may be used to using, Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Word is the equivilient of Pages, Excel is Microsoft's version of Numbers and finally Microsoft PowerPoint is similar to Keynote.

By default, when you are working on a Mac and save a Pages document, it will default to a .PAGES file.

Whilst this is absolutely fine, when you upload it to the school, Microsoft Word is not able to read the Apple file format.

You will need to convert or export the PAGES file to Microsoft Word DOCX format, or the OpenOffice XML format.

There are a couple of ways that you can convert a Pages file to a Word document:

1. Export the document from Pages in to a Microsoft Word format

   1. Please follow this guide from Apple.com, where it will explain how to do this on each Apple device: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202227
      
      

2. Use a third-party website to upload and convert the document for you.

   1. Please only use this solution if the document is not sensitive and you are happy for it to be in the public domain, as this is not a secure and private way to convert a document.

   2. Save the .pages file/attachment to your desktop

   3. Go to https://cloudconvert.com/pages-to-doc

   4. Click ‘Select File’ and then choose the .pages file you saved to your desktop earlier, and click ‘Open’.

   5. Click the ‘Convert’ button and wait for the conversion to finish.

   6. Click on the ‘Download’ button, which will download the converted document to your ‘Downloads’ area.

   7. Navigate to your ‘Downloads’ area and find the converted document which will now allow you to open it in Word.