Locked documents in Pages

I opened several old Pages documents tonight in Lion. I was surprised to see that the title bar indicated that the document(s) were locked. Clicking on the word Locked I found I could unlock them. The documents were saved in Dropbox. I'm puzzled why they were marked locked. I don't recall locking them. Is this some sort of new default?
Why would the system lock files without my request for it to do so?
Overall, I like the idea of locking documents so avoid accidentally modifying files I didn't intend to modify. Is this a feature of Versions? If so, what are the things I should know about this feature. One of my major issues with Apple software is the lack of any overview of new features to make it easy to adopt the new version of the software and stay out of trouble with the changes. They should have people with a customer view of the world be writing things to explain the features of a product, the things to watch for, and maintain a FAQ as questions arise and get answered.

There are lots of tutorials online, you can always use Google to look for one. For example if you need a Pages Tutorial just Google "Pages Tutorial" and will find links directly to them. For example:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/#pages-hero
was the top hit when I typed in Pages Tutorial.
Also if you aren't comfortable with Lion and can't figure out something, once again Google it or go to a book store and get a OS X Lion book to use as refrence material.
To lock or unlock a file is fairly simple once you know where to look which I can understand wasn't super intuitive, however again if you'd Google it you would have found it in seconds. Look at the example below for where to lock or unlock a document:
Things aren't tough to figure out if you get stumped, just Google it and you can usually find some solution.

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