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New I'm hearing...
...that the new versions of Pages/Numbers/Etc silently upgrade your documents to the latest version, and the old versions of software cannot read these upgraded documents.

Is that correct? I have friends/family asking about Mavericks, and it's not on my radar these days.
New No 100% sure...
Since I have the 2 versions ago... the new version will not read those... nor write to any of the older versions, period. So if you *DO* open the file from "last version" and save... can only be opened by the new version since there is no option to "save as" an older version.

They probably justify this as: Mavericks is free and includes newer versions for previous installations

I don't know if the new versions of "iWorks" pages/numbers/etc are free for machines unable to run Mavericks. As I never checked before I updated to Mavericks.

...

After some checking... the answer is *NO*... you have to be running Mavericks to get the newest stuff. http://www.apple.com/mac/pages/ at the bottom goes to: http://www.apple.com...s/mac/up-to-date/ and apparently, if you've ever installed/purchased them before (like I did from DVD) you are eligible once on Mavericks. I also believe the "dates" are bogus, as I updated well after those dates.

Kind of a crappy thing to me. But hey, what ever works.

The other thing they have done, is change the interface to make it similar to the iPad/etc versions. But since the wife likes the new version better... it is fine with me as I use LibreOffice for everything.


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After plunking around... it will not *SAVE* the originaly odcs in the old format, but will "Export To" PDF, Word, Plain text, ePub and Pages '09...

This means it SUCKS... then you have to have 2 or 3 or more versions of the same doc floating around. Meh.
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Expand Edited by folkert Dec. 20, 2013, 12:44:02 PM EST
New Ta.
Sounds like entirely too much farting around. I'll point them at Office, if they ask.

Irrespective of anything else, Office is good with backwards compatibility.
     Anyone done Mavericks yet? - (Ashton) - (15)
         Not here. - (Another Scott)
         I have it - (Bman)
         Yep. - (a6l6e6x) - (6)
             That is the one issue. - (folkert) - (5)
                 Thanks for the details. - (Another Scott)
                 I'm hearing... - (pwhysall) - (2)
                     No 100% sure... - (folkert) - (1)
                         Ta. - (pwhysall)
                 Another issue. - (a6l6e6x)
         Speaking of update... - (folkert) - (2)
             Re: Speaking of update... - (Bman) - (1)
                 Re: Did it. - (a6l6e6x)
         Thanks all.. helpful. Mav. still seems ~ beta+ - (Ashton) - (2)
             Uh... not really, 10.9.0 was nearly error free. - (folkert) - (1)
                 OK.. thanks. Maybe in Jan. then. -NT - (Ashton)

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