Can't save a file; error message says file couldn't be opened

Using Pages '09 ver. 4.3 and OSX 10.8.4
When I try to save a new document in pages, I get an error message that says "the file 'xxxx.pages-tef" couldn't be opened.
How can I fix this so that I can start saving files again?

Pages 5.2 Mac OSX 10.9.2
Start Pages app
Create a blank document
File > Save or <Command>+S
Select Mac Device and find your user folder or favorite, Desktop (not iCloud)
Error: the file "Untitled.pages" couldn't be opened!?!
Repeat giving the document a different name and it works
Since when do we write error messages with "n't"?
Usually a well written error message offers a suggestion as to what you might do about it?
Since it says opened and I clicked on Save, there is a bug in there somewhere.
All I was trying to do today was copy and paste some text from a website into numbers spreadsheet
Both Edit > Paste options but the text in one cell so I tried to save it as a text file first to try and import the data
Text Edit does not have a text only export format so before loading Terminal and starting vi or emacs, I tried pages. I'll go try XCode's editor or my Windows 7 vm with notepad and openoffice
I miss the old Pages with the Appleworks importer, this one needs more Quality Assurance Testing IMHO
WWSJD "What Would Steve Jobs do?"

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