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After creating a word document from a pages document, I cannot send it in my gmail account to another email address. The document converts back from word to pages. Help!
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The OP said nothing about using Pages for iCloud. This is a Pages for Mac community, and the Pages for Mac application is entirely different in its usage.
In Pages for Mac, the Share menu : Send a Copy > Mail > Word, instructs Pages to export the Pages document as a Word .docx, automatically launches Apple Mail, and attaches the Word document to a new Mail compose message. Pages is internally programmed to use Apple Mail, and GMail clients on the Mac are unknown to it. The OP would have to Export to Word .docx, and then manually attach that Word document to a new GMail message.
The OP said nothing about using Pages for iCloud. This is a Pages for Mac community, and the Pages for Mac application is entirely different in its usage.
In Pages for Mac, the Share menu : Send a Copy > Mail > Word, instructs Pages to export the Pages document as a Word .docx, automatically launches Apple Mail, and attaches the Word document to a new Mail compose message. Pages is internally programmed to use Apple Mail, and GMail clients on the Mac are unknown to it. The OP would have to Export to Word .docx, and then manually attach that Word document to a new GMail message.
Export your document as a .xlsx file saved to your computer.
Open a new email in your gmail account.
Address and compose the message,
Click the Attachment button.
Navigate to where you saved the file and double click the file name.
the navigation window will close and you will be returned to the compose screen showing you message with the file attached,
Send the email.
Notes:
When you Export a pages file to a different format, Pages creates a copy of the file, translates that copy into the named format (.docx}, saves the translated file to the location you specified, and discards the 'in memory' copy of the translated file.
The process makes NO changes to the .pages copy of the document currently open in Pages.
If you re-open the .docx file (in Pages), Pages reads the .docx file, translates it into a .pages file, and loads the .pages version into Pages for editing or reading. NO change is made to the .docx version unless you edit the document then export it to the .docx format and save it in the same location and with the same name as it had before.
Regards,
Barry
If the Finder is hiding the document extension, then the Pages document will be a text icon, and the Word document will also be a text icon with a DOCX stamp on the bottom of the icon. Unmistakable.
If your GMail client is automatically switching the Word document extension back to .pages, then that is a Google problem. It should not be doing that. Apple Mail certainly does not do that nonsense.
I use Export then choose to share it by email.
If you use Share it will send the Pages file
Thanks for your reply. I have tried your last suggestion of dragging the word doc into a composed email. After placed as an attachment the word doc changed to a pages doc.
After creating a word document from a pages document, I cannot send it in my gmail account to another email address. The document converts back from word to pages. Help!
