Pages can used to create custom documents which include charts, tables, images, text boxes, shapes, equations and graphs. Pages includes over 140 Apple-supplied templates to allow users to create common documents such as posters, newsletters, certificates, reports, brochures and formal letters - iWork '09 added support for a further 40 new templates. A direct competitor to Microsoft Word (part of Microsoft's 'Office' suite) it originally aimed to take a more simplistic approach to document creation and editing than Word, stripping out many of Word's more complex features. Pages is a hybrid application, first released by Apple in February 2005, that allows users to perform both word processing and page layout tasks.
pages file extension are word processing documents created by Apple's 'Pages' application which forms part of Apple's iWork office suite, a set of applications which run on the Max OS X and iOS operating systems, and also includes Numbers (for spreadsheets) and Keynote (for presentations).
