Pages → DOCX is for when someone has to keep working on a Mac document in Word: text, footnotes and pictures move across, but every paragraph lands in Word's Normal style, so headings need re-tagging.
From real runs
| Element | Result | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Body text | Kept | Each paragraph in our test documents arrived as ordinary editable Word text, with Czech accents and curly quotes unchanged. |
| Heading styles | Changed | Pages headings come across as bold text in Word's Normal style, so the Navigation pane is empty and Word cannot build a contents list from them until you apply Heading 1 and Heading 2. |
| Footnotes, headers and footers | Kept | A report's three footnotes became real Word footnotes, and its footer kept a live page-number field rather than typed numbers. |
| Pictures | Kept | The iPad handout's map and river photo were embedded in the DOCX as JPEGs at their placed size; the map stays anchored above the title, as in the PDF route. |
| Tables | Changed | A 3 × 4 Pages table became a real Word table with a header row style, but its ruled borders were not carried over. |
| Fonts | Changed | The file asks for the original names, such as Helvetica Neue, Georgia and Lucida Grande. Word on a Mac usually has them; Word on Windows substitutes, which moves line breaks. |
| Text boxes and shapes | Changed | A page-layout test file produced seven Word drawing shapes; when we reopened the DOCX the green rectangle and arrow were fine, but a green circle showed as a partial pie shape. |
| Table of contents | Lost | The automatic contents list in a Pages 13 file was dropped entirely; insert a new one in Word after styling the headings. |
Each paragraph in our test documents arrived as ordinary editable Word text, with Czech accents and curly quotes unchanged.
Pages headings come across as bold text in Word's Normal style, so the Navigation pane is empty and Word cannot build a contents list from them until you apply Heading 1 and Heading 2.
A report's three footnotes became real Word footnotes, and its footer kept a live page-number field rather than typed numbers.
The iPad handout's map and river photo were embedded in the DOCX as JPEGs at their placed size; the map stays anchored above the title, as in the PDF route.
A 3 × 4 Pages table became a real Word table with a header row style, but its ruled borders were not carried over.
The file asks for the original names, such as Helvetica Neue, Georgia and Lucida Grande. Word on a Mac usually has them; Word on Windows substitutes, which moves line breaks.
A page-layout test file produced seven Word drawing shapes; when we reopened the DOCX the green rectangle and arrow were fine, but a green circle showed as a partial pie shape.
The automatic contents list in a Pages 13 file was dropped entirely; insert a new one in Word after styling the headings.
We converted our Apple Pages sample (232 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.0 s and produced a 7 KB Word DOCX file, 97% smaller than the input. The engine raised 2 warnings, listed below.
Input · sample.pages · 232 KB
ZIP with 26 parts
Output · sample.docx · 7 KB
Word document: 26 paragraphs, 0 headings, 1 table, 0 embedded images; fonts Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans
LibreOffice
soffice --headless --convert-to docx --outdir out report.pagesSame import as ours, so plan the same clean-up: apply Heading styles in Word, then insert a fresh table of contents.
Pages (Mac, iPhone, iPad or iCloud.com)
File → Export To → Word (iCloud.com: Download a Copy → Word)Made by the app that wrote the file, so it is the better route whenever someone can reach a Mac or iCloud.com.
The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=pages&to=docx.
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@input.pages" -F "from=pages" -F "to=docx" \
--output output.docxNot until you restyle them. The conversion brings headings over as bold Normal paragraphs, so select each one and apply Heading 1 or Heading 2; after that the Navigation pane and References → Table of Contents work.
The DOCX names the fonts the Pages document used. Word for Mac generally finds Helvetica Neue and Georgia; Word for Windows replaces Apple-only faces, so paragraphs can reflow and the page count can change.
No. The password encrypts the contents, so there is nothing to convert until it is removed. In Pages, turn the password off, save, and upload that copy.