Document won’t open, grayed out.

I typed a document in pages on my iPad , and was trying to export and send (not an option in my drop-down menu so I sent to pdfexpert so I could email the document so others could open. Now it is visible but grayed out on both pages and pdfexpert. When I open from files it appears with simple a data count.

Help!

iPad, iPadOS 18

Posted on Feb 19, 2025 11:42 AM

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Feb 20, 2025 04:17 AM in response to JRW1111

When you have a Pages for iPadOS v14.3 document open in iPadOS 18.*, there is very definitely an option to export on the menu directly below the open filename.


Export > PDF > Mail. That opens a new Mail compose window on the iPad with the PDF document attached. If it is a one-page PDF, it will not be an icon, and you will need to take it on a leap of faith that the attachment is a PDF.


See Export to Word, PDF, or another file format in Pages on iPad - Apple Support


Pages cannot open a PDF and it will appear grayed out for that reason. No need to use PDFExpert for the above activity.


Tested: M4 iPad Pro with iPadOS 18.3.1, Pages v14.3 for iPad.




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