Greyed out documents in Pages in iPad pro

A previous question explained that some formats eg pdf can’t be opened in Pages after trying to save there and just show as grey titles. How do I get rid of these greyed out document titles which are now just clutter?

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iPad Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 3:49 PM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2019 4:55 PM

When you first open Pages it will display a list of documents which are saved in your Pages folder within the Files application. The Pages folder is either stored on iCloud Drive or On My iPad.

.ODT and .PDF files are not supported by Pages and cannot be imported. Pages supports importing .TXT, .RTF, .DOC, .DOCX, .Pages, etc. You would need to find other applications that could read .ODT and .PDF.

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