HELP! How to save a Mac Pages doc so it can be opened by a PC?

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I hope someone can help me, I urgently need to send my CV somewhere and I've just got a new Macbook. The 'Microsoft Word' equivalent on my Mac, 'Pages', will only save documents in the .pages form, which can't be opened by the person I'm trying to send my CV to who I assume has a PC.

How can I save it so it's compatible?! I thought this would be ok and I'm now panicking, this is really important and I look like a total technophobe when I'm not really, I just can't figure this out. I can't seem to find any decent forums online, can anyone here help me?

When I bought the software from Apple they said it was compatible - what am I doing wrong?!

can you not delete the .pages suffix and replace with.doc?

It won't let me, I tried that but it said that wasn't a valid file extension. I gave me the option of saving it as both, so it looks like '.doc.pages' at the end but this isn't compatible either

Can you save it as a pdf file and send that instead?

how about saving it as a pdf?

xpost vanimal!

Ooh that sounds like a good idea... I'll give that a whirl

Wouldn't let me save as PDF, but just worked out I need to use 'export' rather than 'save as' to get it to save as a different format. Think it's worked, crisis over, thanks so much for your help!!

well done!

Macs can "print" anything to a PDF file, which is really very handy as it's a genuinely portable format.

Use the "Print Menu" and on there will be a "Save as PDF" option.

I meant to add that think how useful printing out the final page of a web order, e.g. from Amazon, as a PDF file and saving it somewhere can be.

It's a genuinely great piece of functionality that i use an awful lot.

oh yes, thanks Badgers, that does sound v useful. I'm always ordering stuff online and it's v handy to be able to save them, so that sounds great. Thank you!

Sorry, only just seen this and there is a reasonably simple way of converting it.

You go to Share at the top (where it says File, Edit etc), then go to Export, choose Word and save it in the right place.

Probably too late for what you want, but might help in the future.

Simple!

HTH

"Printing" as a PDF document is much better and safer bet than trying to send something as a Word Document. The Word Document format is notoriously cranky and complicated and often formatting can break and things just end up looking odd. PDFs are very portable and work much better as things to pass around when people only need to be able to read and print them.

I agree that PDF is the way to go for sending CVs and things you don't want changed, but there are times when you do need to send something which can be editable which is why I posted. I also agree that the conversion can be a bit flaky, but for plain straight text it's fine.