Someone with an iPhone or Mac sent you a .pages, .numbers or .key file and Windows doesn't know what to do with it. These are Apple's iWork formats: Pages for documents, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations. Here are your options.
| Option | Cost | File leaves your PC? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Ask the sender to export it | Free | No | One file, sender is reachable |
| 2. iCloud.com | Free, Apple ID needed | Yes, uploaded to iCloud | Editing, if you have an Apple ID |
| 3. A desktop iWork viewer | Free to view | No | Many files, private files |
| 4. Look inside the file | Free | No | A quick look at the first page |
| 5. Online converters | Free | Yes, uploaded | Non-sensitive files |
In Pages, Numbers or Keynote the sender can choose File → Export To and pick Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF. That gives you a file Windows opens right away and keeps the layout exactly as the sender sees it.
Apple's free web versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote run in a browser on Windows. You need an Apple ID, and the file is uploaded to your iCloud Drive. From there you can also download it as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF file.
A viewer app opens the file directly on your PC, with no Apple ID and no upload. Our own iWork File Viewer for Windows is free for viewing and copying text, and a one-time Pro upgrade adds PDF and PNG export, batch PDF conversion and printing. Pages documents look closest to the original; Numbers charts and Keynote background pictures may look different, and the app tells you when that happens.
An iWork file is really a ZIP package. Copy the file, rename the copy to end in .zip and open it. Files from iWork '09 often contain a full Preview.pdf; newer files usually only contain a small picture of the first page (preview.jpg). It's a quick way to peek, not to read the whole document.
Some websites convert iWork files to PDF or Office formats. You must upload the file to someone else's server, so avoid them for anything personal or confidential.
No. Word, Excel and PowerPoint can't open iWork files. Use one of the options above or ask for a Word/Excel/PowerPoint copy.
Newer versions of Pages can save a document as a folder package. Zip the folder, or drag the whole folder into a viewer that supports packages.
Password-protected iWork files can only be opened in Apple's apps or iCloud with the password. Ask the sender for a PDF instead.