Hi April, First thing to note is that your Windows machine will not be able to open a .Pages document unless you have first made it into a different format readable by whatever application you have on your Windows machine. Similarly, if you don’t have the Pages app on a different Mac, then you won’t be able to open that document on the other Mac either. On the Mac, you can set Pages to automatically open MSWord documents but the opposite isn’t true on Windows, MSWord will not open a Pages document at all. So, for example, if you have MSWord on your Windows machine, then you’ll need to export your Pages document into Word format. To accomplish this:
1. Open your Pages document on your Mac. 2. VO-m to access the menubar. 3. VO-right to the File menu. 4. VO-down to the Export item, which includes a sub-menu. 5. VO-right to activate the sub-menu. 6. VO-down to the Word option. 7. Press return twice. The first return brings up the Export menu in case you wish to change your mind on the format and the second return will bring you to the saving dialog. The Export dialog has a few Unknowns in it but if you Interact with them, you will see what they pertain to, although you simply need to press return the second time if you chose the correct format from the sub-menu. You will note that the filename will be the same as what you’ve named it in Pages but will have a .DOCX as the extension. 8. Choose your destination from within the Save dialog and a Word document will be created. This Word document can be eMailed or copied to other media and put into a different computer that has the Word application. To eMail it, do the following: 1. Open a new message in Mail. 2. Adress and Subject the message. 3. Put in any text in the message area. 4. Press cmd-shift-a to Attach a file. 5. Locate the file from the Attach/Open dialog and press return to attach it. An item will be placed into your message letting you know the name of the newly attached file. 6. Send it. The recipient should receive your message with the attached Word file and as long as they have Word on their machine, they should be good to go. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 23, 2014, at 5:34 AM, April Brown <aprilbrownwr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't work here. It claims to be a potential security issue. I have > screenshots saved. No idea how to add a screen shot to a message on the > message board. > > Of course, I've not even had my computer for a month yet, so I may have a > different version of Pages. > > And when I try to open a Pages document on the old Windows computer, it won't > open, a it is a folder and a separate document beside it. > > Have to keep that, until I get all of nine months important Outlook emails > converted to text, and a step by step VoiceOver guide created, so I can use > VoiceOver. > > > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:19:32 PM UTC-5, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Sending Pages documents via eMail will send it as a .pages document just > fine. I tested a few minutes ago with a Pages document from my Gmail account > to my work account and the document came through perfectly as a Pages > document which opened properly. It should be no different for any regular > documents. > > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch <cbl...@aol.com> wrote: > >> The MIME format used to encode email attachments has no structure for >> folders so to attach a folder of files many email apps will zip them into a >> single file and then send that as an attachment. That said, a Word doc >> usually is one monolithic file so unless you somehow picked the containing >> folder rather than the exported word doc the mail app shouldn't be applying >> zip to your attachment. Now a pages document actually is a folder so if you >> somehow are attaching a Pages doc and not the converted Word version that >> would explain it. >> >> CB >> >> On 1/22/14 6:35 AM, Jessica D wrote: >>> it is just one file. >>> why would apple mail zip files and not tell you? i have never seen this as >>> an issue before. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:34 PM, Chris Blouch <cbl...@aol.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have the file selected you can do a command-I to get info on the >>>> file and the Size field will tell you how big it is. In general 10MB and >>>> under should go through ok with most email providers. The internet >>>> standards for MIME encoded attachments have no size limits but that >>>> doesn't mean one service provider or another doesn't impose one. MIME also >>>> adds about a third again of overhead so emailing a 3MB file will take >>>> about 4MB of space, pushing you over the 10MB limit sooner. I know Outlook >>>> and some other email clients have options to automatically zip attachments >>>> but I was unaware of Apple Mail doing this. I have heard it will zip a >>>> folder. Are you attaching the actual file or a folder of files? >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>>> On 1/21/14 5:27 PM, Jessica D wrote: >>>>> i have no clue, how would i find out? >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Chris Blouch <cbl...@aol.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> How big are the files you are trying to send? Maybe something is trying >>>>>> to 'help' you along the way by zipping the files. >>>>>> >>>>>> CB >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 1/21/14 5:04 PM, Jess wrote: >>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>> I am having extreme difficulty sending word and/or excel files to >>>>>>> people who have older versions of windows. It sends them as .zip files >>>>>>> instead of .xls, csv, or .doc. why could this be? >>>>>>> Jessica >>>>>>> I walk by faith, not by sight. >>>>>>> 2 Corinthians 5: 7 >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>> an email to macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> -- >>>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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