"Open Recent" files option not working - Yosemite 10.10, Pages 5.5.2

Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite and Pages 5, "Open Recent" has not been working. Today I set the General System Preferences to open my last 10 documents but it has not made a difference. Please help as this is extremely frustrating when working with multiple recent documents.
Yosemite 10.10, Pages 5.5.2

Where are you saving to?
Try repairing Permissions/Disk in Disk Utility.
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