Learn how to convert or save documents created in the Apple Pages app as Word files on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad for cross-platform compatibility with Windows.
Microsoft Office is available on the Mac, but many Mac owners stick to Pages – Apple’s free Word equivalent preinstalled on every iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
The Pages app is good enough for many casual users, but you may encounter compatibility issues because Pages documents are only readable on the Mac.
This is where saving or converting a Pages document to Microsoft Word can help.
Mac
1) Open the Pages for Mac app.
2) Create a new document or open the existing one you want to convert to a Word file.
3) Click File > Export To > Word from the top menu bar.
4) Choose your path under ‘Where’ and name your file under Save As. Then click the Save or Export button.
You can now open the converted document in Microsoft Word for Windows, as well as Pages on Mac.
Pages defaults to saving documents in the most recent Word format (.docx). The app used to let you export documents in the older .doc format that can be read by older Word versions, but not anymore, as the vast majority of people use the .docx format nowadays. This shouldn’t be too much of an issue, but it’s worth noting nonetheless.
iPhone or iPad
To save or convert a Pages file into the Word format:
- Create or open your document in the Pages app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap the three-dot menu in the top-right corner and select Export > Word.
- Choose to save the Word document to the Files app or share it with apps, websites, or people.
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