David and All,
>
> Thanks for the video link.
>
> I found the same instructions last night for opening Pages files by 
> changing the extension to zip and extracting. What's interesting is 
> that my experience is different from what is shown in the video.
>
> Let's say my file is called "Charley Brown HW11.pages." When I extract 
> the file, a folder is created. It contains two subfolders: MACOSX and 
> Charley Brown HW11. When I open the HW11 file, I find three items: a 
> folder called Contents, a folder called Quick Look, and a file called 
> Index.XML.GZ. Quick Look only contains a file called thumbnail.jpg. I 
> opened it in Photo Viewer and used the Freedom Import Printer to find 
> out what was on it, but it was all junk with the occasional word or 
> word fragment. Here are the first couple of lines:
>
> ThIB 14 I  HI MB el  in e  way. She nadir! be an ii
>
>  cd her tirlh. ba the =nets  1. and la W.M. seems he basis ells theDry 
> an and
>
>  fwlars liar s. as when
>
>  are
>
>        11 1  1t  real 11 E  were 'kin "Iv  learn Month rn xi I
>
>  did Ns Back
>
> his
>
> I haven't figured out how to open the xml.gz file, and the contents 
> folder only contains a small file called PkgInfo, which I also can't 
> open, but both of these are beside the point.
>
> I'm wondering if the CharleyBrownHW11.Pages file is corrupt? Has 
> anyone else tried opening Pages files using the 
> rename-to-zip-and-extract method? I'm wondering why my results were so 
> different from the video's.
>
> Ciao
>
> On 5/22/2014 3:55 AM, David Goldfield wrote:
>> Ana,
>> what I'm about to tell you will sound totally odd and I actually 
>> wondered whether the instructions I found were correct but I verified 
>> this with three different sites.
>> the Pages files are actually compressed files.  Rename the file so 
>> that it has a .zip extension.
>> Open the .zip file and there should be a quicklook folder.
>> Open quicklook and there should be a pdf file called Preview. This 
>> preview file is the actual document.
>> It sounds like an odd way to save a file but it should work, although 
>> I haven't tried it personally.  Here is a page with detailed 
>> instructions.
>> http://www.junesjournal.com/need-to-open-a-pages-file-on-a-windows-pc/
>>
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>>
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>>
>> On 5/22/2014 1:26 AM, Ana G wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to open Mac Pages files in Windows?
>>>
>>> I collect all student homework by email, and though my syllabus 
>>> tells students to submit their work in doc, docx, or rtf file 
>>> format, I always have a few Mac and iOS users who forget, even after 
>>> I send them information on exporting pages files. Most of the time, 
>>> I'm happy to stick to my guns, but sometimes I think it would be 
>>> much easier if I could just open the files myself.
>>>
>>> I've searched the web, and what I've found is that there is no way 
>>> to open pages files in Windows or any plugin or website that does this.
>>>
>>> A couple of forums have suggested changing the file extension from 
>>> pages to zip, then extracting the file. I just did this and had no 
>>> success.
>>>
>>> does anyone have other suggestions or wisdom on getting the zip 
>>> method to work? I have an iPhone somewhere collecting dust. I'm 
>>> thinking I could use that to convert the file, but am wondering if I 
>>> really want to spend money on Pages, etc.
>>>
>>> any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Ciao
>>>
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