So, I have a document written in English in Pages, how do I translate it to Italian and where does the translated document appear.

Hiimmel wrote:

T On my iPad, when I select some, or all, of the text to be translated, I get a message "The selected content will be sent to Apple to process the translation. You can choose to always translate offline in Settings." When I press "Continue, " nothing happens.

It works fine for me. Where are you located?

Have you tried going to the Settings for Translate and downloading the Italian stuff for offline work?

Regarding the document translation feature, to ask Apple to add that, you can use

Product Feedback - Apple

(Here you are only talking to other users like yourself).

Unfortunately Apple's translation services are still pretty primative compared to Google's, especially in terms of language coverage. Hopefully they will improve over time.

I don't think you can translate "documents" as such. You can select a text, choose "translate" from the various options in the menu that appears, and the copy the translation to another document if you want.

You can upload a document to Google Translate, though you'd need to save it as a word document first.

https://support.google.com/translate/answer/2534559?ref_topic=7011659&hl=en

Google does reasonably well with Romance languages but you'll still need to proof it carefully.

Hiimmel wrote:

Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm sure Google does a reasonably good job as you said, but what's the point of using Pages? I could just use Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Please forgive me if my reply sounds harsh, but I'm frustrated that an option in Pages to translate documents into other languages doesn't exist or, at a minimum, doesn't work for selected text.

Personally, I'm uninclined to spend a lot of time on figuring out how to get something to work if there's another solution that looks like it will work. But, that's a personal preference.