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Apr 25, 2008
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I'm sure this topic has come up before but after a search here, for the life of me I cannot find any posts on it.

My main work machine is running El Capitan with Pages ver. 5. This machine cannot be updated to Sierra so Pages 5 (5.6.2 to be exact) is the latest I can have on it.

My Pages documents are saved in iCloud so I have access to them on my mobile devices. Anyhow I suspect on my iPhone 7 (iOS 11) I have a later version of Pages. I have opened some of my Pages documents on my iPhone and I have since discovered that those same documents can no longer be opened on Pages on my main machine - I get an error "The file "zzzz" couldn't be opened".

I'm guessing Pages on my iPhone has updated the documents to a later version that can no longer be opened in Pages 5 on El Capitan. Is this assumption correct? Any way to recover those documents to be opened on my desktop? Can they be converted to an older Pages version?
 
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