CloudConvert, you will remember, is a web service that lets you convert any document from you Dropbox into pretty much any other file type that makes sense. Now, it has added support for iWork documents, letting you convert Pages documents to Word DOC and DOCX for example.
The killer for some, though, is that you can roll back your newly screwed-up iWork files to work with iWork ’09.
Some folks don’t like the new iWork apps as they ditch a lot of functionality in order to start over with a simpler, more intuitive experience. It’s like iMovie all over again (and Final Cut X, I guess).
In future, Pages and Numbers will surely be even better than the versions they replaced, but for now you can take you new files back to the old apps with CloudConvert. And if you just want to send newer files to people who didn’t yet upgrade, that’s now possible too.
Here’s the full list of new conversions:
PAGES to DOC
PAGES to DOCX
PAGES to PDF
PAGES to TXT
PAGES to PAGES (PAGES 09)NUMBERS to XLS
NUMBERS to XLSX
NUMBERS to PDF
NUMBERS to NUMBERS (NUMBERS 09)KEY to PPT
KEY to PDF
KEY to KEY (KEYNOTE 09)
But maybe it’s enough just to convert from Microsoft’s Office documents to use them in proper apps.
Source: CloudConvert Blog
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3 responses to “Change New iWork Documents Back Into Old iWork ’09 Documents With Cloud Convert”
This future you speak of… How high did you score on your prescience test?
Oh, they don’t exist? Well then, don’t profess to know the future. Apple sure doesn’t or they’d have know how terrible an experience the new iWork has been for legacy users. What the hell were they thinking?
Thanks for the conversion article, shouldn’t be necessary, but that’s hardly anyone but Apple’s fault (grumble, grumble, grumble).
Alas, CloudConversion didn’t work… I kept getting errors.
Here’s what I had to do:
Open iCloud in Safari, navigate to Pages (beta), open the offending document, marvel at the similarity of the simple-minded web app and the new Pages app (stifle a chuckle – maybe bile), go to Tools>Download>Word (glow in the irony), open downloaded .doc file in Pages ’09 (lamented a moment over the lost formatting and the disappearance of objects in tables that had been dropped from the previous Pages format when new Pages raped it), from Pages go to File>Open>iCloud locate the document I just converted from and destroy it. Go to File>Save…> and save the .doc to iCloud (it’s now a pages ’09 formatted document). Huzzah!
TLDR: Open in iCloud online, convert to doc, reopen in ’09 Pages. Resave. Done.
There may be an easier way to do this crazy workaround, but hey, this is what I came up with given the choice of using my brain or a rock.
Actually, using CloudConvert does not work. The new pages file is a package. What from that package should be selected for conversion? Giving more detail about this kind of conversion would be useful…