April, Oh! You mean sending via email. Yes, since the new iWork update, Gmail won’t reconize the new file format. Gmail have not updated yet, so it see it as a security threat. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro
2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:51 AM, April Brown <aprilbrownwr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realize I wouldn't be able to open it on my Windows machine without > changing it. Thanks for easy to follow directions. > > However, I still couldn't email Pages document to my husband's Mac, same age > as mine, under a month old. In fact, the email wouldn't send because it > thought the document was a suspicious file. Maybe some setting is set wrong. > I don't know. I just know Pages and Numbers documents cannot be attached to > email on either of our Macs. > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:04:42 AM UTC-5, Tim Kilburn wrote: > 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 <aprilbr...@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. 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