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In Google Docs, I can open the same doc in multiple tabs in order to view different sections of the doc at once without needing to make duplicates of the doc, etc.
Is there not a way to do this with Pages? In real life, it's nice to be able to view different parts of the same document, unclipped, pinned to a wall, etc. Is that too much to ask for in Pages?
Mac Pro, macOS 14.6
Pages simply will not open the same document n-tuple times from the same folder location. If you need that capability, you have the wrong application or operating system as even Microsoft Word will not do this on the Mac or Windows 11 Pro.
Pages simply will not open the same document n-tuple times from the same folder location. If you need that capability, you have the wrong application or operating system as even Microsoft Word will not do this on the Mac or Windows 11 Pro.
You can open the same document in Pages more than once provided that the document is located in different folder locations. Apple did not design Pages to be a clone of any other word-processing application or "borrow" their features.
As I suggested, neither Apple nor Microsoft are interested in redesigning their applications or operating systems to emulate Google's web-based Google Docs. Google Docs is not the de facto nor de jure industry document interchange standard but it would appear it is a win for you.
I do enjoy pages a lot and use it as my default, but most of the clients I have worked with since covid have migrated their companies to Google Docs and Drive.
Even when recommending pages, they opt for GDocs because of a few reasons, this being one. Others I hear are:
I stick with Apple primarily for respecting privacy and ownership of data. I do hope they can take more proactive lead vs incremental product updates. So bored of new iWhatever versions. Apple is overcooked.
I appreciate the answer and may need to resort to that. Unfortunately that doesn't solve it in that this creates two documents vs one in two separate windows.
Calling that a feature is a stretch imo. It's like calling 'open' or 'save' a feature they "borrowed", when it's simply a ubiquitous part of any word processing tool.
I was afraid of that. This would be a lot more useful than AI emoji's. Google Docs wins again.
Multiple tabs/instances of same Pages doc open at once
