View PAGES Files Online

About PAGES Files

A .pages file is an Apple Pages document, which may be a report, essay, newsletter, resume, or some other type of text document. It is the default format for saving documents with Apple Pages, an application part of the iWork productivity software suite available on macOS and iOS. Apple device owners, including students, professionals, and casual users, are the most common users who create, edit, and share .pages files.

Since Pages documents are specific to Apple devices, users on other operating systems typically experience difficulty opening them. For example, a Mac user may create a .pages report with Pages and email it to a Windows user who has no app able to view or edit it.

Converting PAGES Files

To avoid incompatibility dilemmas, you can convert .pages files to more standard formats to view them without the Pages app. Some options include Microsoft Word Document (.docx), OpenDocument Text Document (.odt), Portable Document Format (.pdf), Rich Text (.rtf), or even plain text (.txt).

A PDF may provide the closest match to the original file, but it won't be editable like a typical word-processing document. Many word processors, including Microsoft Word, can edit Word Document, OpenDocument, and Rich Text files, but the files may lose some formatting data, such as images, charts, and tables, when converting from .pages files. Converting a Pages document to a plain text file will remove all the formatting, exporting only text.