The other day I brought a .pages file into a classroom. The problem is all the computers at the school use MS Windows, which can't open .pages files. Did I panic? Yes. Was all hope lost? Nope. It turns out that the .pages extension is just a fancy compressed file. That means you can simply change the ".pages" extension to ".zip" or ".rar" and get at the file contents. The simplest way to get at the text from there is to look in the folder called "QuickLook." There should be a PDF in that folder Read more [...]