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Download Pages through your App store.
Search for Pages app. The page will give you a choice to install.
That will ask if you want to purchase Pages. Accept that.
It will then tell you that your Yosemite system is not compatible with the current Pages version, and ask if you want to download the most recent "older" version that can work with Yosemite.
Click Download, and, there you are...
(The good news, in this case "Purchase" means that Apple will add it to your "Purchased" list, and it's free. You pay nothing.
Search for Pages app. The page will give you a choice to install.
That will ask if you want to purchase Pages. Accept that.
It will then tell you that your Yosemite system is not compatible with the current Pages version, and ask if you want to download the most recent "older" version that can work with Yosemite.
Click Download, and, there you are...
(The good news, in this case "Purchase" means that Apple will add it to your "Purchased" list, and it's free. You pay nothing.
I clicked on Install Pages and got the message "Pages can’t be installed on “Untitled” because OS X version 10.14 or later is required." (Untitled" is the name of my computer.) That's all they said. No offers to install older version. I have the impression Apple has washed its hands of Yosemite. I cant even get Apple Mail.
I was wondering if I could find an old version of Pages in a store and just buy it for maybe $20.
I was wondering if I could find an old version of Pages in a store and just buy it for maybe $20.
I don't know what to tell you...
I tried this not 15 minutes before I posted about downloading, and it happened exactly as I posted.
Although, I already had Pages installed. Uninstalled my existing Pages, then tried the download. The App Store had a "Buy" (or "Purchase", I don't remember which word was used), then when I clicked Buy, that's when it asked me about older versions. The older version (exactly the same that was previously installed) then downloaded. I literally did that a few minutes before I posted to you.
I tried this not 15 minutes before I posted about downloading, and it happened exactly as I posted.
Although, I already had Pages installed. Uninstalled my existing Pages, then tried the download. The App Store had a "Buy" (or "Purchase", I don't remember which word was used), then when I clicked Buy, that's when it asked me about older versions. The older version (exactly the same that was previously installed) then downloaded. I literally did that a few minutes before I posted to you.
Weird, isnt it? The App Store doesnt offer me "Buy" but "Get". You ARE doing this with an OS older than the 10. 14 they say is required?
I doubt you'll find an older version that can legally be sold other than from Apple. However, you may be able to find the "Trial" version for iWork09 as a download. That was a free trial offered by Apple some time ago. The "Trial" (if you can find it) can be used for 30 days. However, you can use the trial to update to a version of Pages that does not expire. Here's one place you might try: https://downloads.silicon.co.uk/26293/iwork-trial-09/
Well, I downloaded the iWork09Trial.mpkg alright, from "downloads.silicon.co.uk", and installed it. But now if i go to open the app I get a message saying it cant be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.
"Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers."
So -- change my security prefs?
"Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers."
So -- change my security prefs?
Yes, I do that while booted to 10.10.5 (Yosemite)
Now that I have "bought" Pages, uninstall, then try the same process, it simply says "Install". When I click on Install, my system thinks for a moment, then I get the window "Do you want to download an older version", and go from there.
You can temporarily bypass the security prefs by right-clicking the .mkpg, and choose "Open" from the menu.
Just follow @DeltaMac's instruction above and you should be good to go. Don't forget that the trial will expire in 30 days but you can use the trial to update to a version of Pages that does not expire. Let us know.
Well, after fooling around with Pages and Keynote a while, I have to say AppleWorks was a lot better. AppleWorks was very intuitive. Now, I havent been able to find out how to activate a text box that's in the document so I can move it, or how to get rid of it. All Caps is called "Emphasis style". I think the designers at iWorks must have studied typography under Bob Ross. Ah well, it's better than nothing.
The concept of "intuitiveness" is relative to one's pre-existing knowledge and experience. There are those who use iWorks but have never seen AppleWorks who think that iWorks is intuitive.
I'm a huge fan of ClarisWorks and AppleWorks. I heavily used them on my Windows systems and was able to run rings around my colleagues who used MS Office with what I produced with it. AppleWorks was the primary reason why I initially made the switch to Mac computers.
Just as there was a "ClarisWorks way" to approach a task, there's also an "iWork way". I empathize with your frustration with iWork since the older iWork '09 felt more like a follow-up to AppleWorks only to have it all turned upside down with the later rewritten/redesigned versions.
I encourage you to stick with it. It'll take a lot of patience... a lot of "I used to do it this way under Appleworks, how do I do it with iWork?" And you'll find that in some ways that the latest iWork is a big step backward from AppleWorks.
But in the end, as you learn more of the ins and outs, you'll be more productive and less frustrated.