In fact my question is indirectly related to Mac OS. I am on a late 2013 27 inch iMac. I recently upgraded to Catalina which has left me in a bit of a bind. Its nothing serious but I would like to resolve it. I have always used Pages and Numbers as I prefer them to Word and Excel. Now however my versions of Pages and Numbers will not open as they are too old for Catalina. The sting in the tail is that when I try to download them from the AppStore it tells me that I have to upgrade to MacOS 11 (Big Sur), and Big Sur tells me that my computer is too old (it still works as well as when I bought it so I am not going to change it because of Pages and Numbers).
Mr Google tells me that I can upgrade from my Purchase History, but neither program is in my Purchase History (I looked in App Store and iTunes).
So my question, then, is does anyone know of a site where I can download a Catalina compatible version of Pages and Numbers? I looked on the internet but all the sites I found suggested only the Purchase History route. This is a real pain with Apple, the fact that older versions of software are removed and made very hard to find. I would like to get this sorted as I have lots of documents and spreadsheets in these formats. I could probably get Word and Excel to open them ( I haven't tried) but I thought I would put the question out to the huge knowledge bank that is the Alamy forum.
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Colin Woods
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In fact my question is indirectly related to Mac OS. I am on a late 2013 27 inch iMac. I recently upgraded to Catalina which has left me in a bit of a bind. Its nothing serious but I would like to resolve it. I have always used Pages and Numbers as I prefer them to Word and Excel. Now however my versions of Pages and Numbers will not open as they are too old for Catalina. The sting in the tail is that when I try to download them from the AppStore it tells me that I have to upgrade to MacOS 11 (Big Sur), and Big Sur tells me that my computer is too old (it still works as well as when I bought it so I am not going to change it because of Pages and Numbers).
Mr Google tells me that I can upgrade from my Purchase History, but neither program is in my Purchase History (I looked in App Store and iTunes).
So my question, then, is does anyone know of a site where I can download a Catalina compatible version of Pages and Numbers? I looked on the internet but all the sites I found suggested only the Purchase History route. This is a real pain with Apple, the fact that older versions of software are removed and made very hard to find. I would like to get this sorted as I have lots of documents and spreadsheets in these formats. I could probably get Word and Excel to open them ( I haven't tried) but I thought I would put the question out to the huge knowledge bank that is the Alamy forum.
Colin
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