When you want to convert Pages 09 files, change the .pages extension to .zip Click on the zip file and this will unpack a folder that has the same name as the zip file, inside that folder will be a folder called quick look which will contain a preview.pdf and a thumbnail.jpg. The preview.pdf is a pdf of the content. You can cut and paste the copy from here into a word file or a text file, although you may have to reformat (i.e., delete paragraph marks at end of each line) to make it more reader friendly.
