Opening a previously saved document in Pages

I have Maverick and Pages 4.3.  When I press Command O in other applications, a window appears with a drop down menu at the top that allows you to choose between the desktop and the hard drive. But the window that appears in Pages does not have that drop down menu. Only the contents of the desktop are in the window. Is there any way to access the hard drive contents, which is where all my files are?

Yes it can, just make sure hard disks are checked in Finder Prefereces.
And you really should store your files in your Documents folder or in Users > Shared.

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