How to Open a Pages File on PC or Mac

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This wikiHow teaches you how to open a file made in Apple's word processing app Pages on Windows or macOS. If you're using a Mac, just double-click the file that ends with a ".pages" file extension to open it in Pages. If you're using Windows, you can create a free iCloud account to open and edit Pages files in the official web-based version of Pages. If you don't want to edit the file, you can try a quick renaming trick to view the file as a PDF or JPG.