Cannot update pages for second user

Question

We have 2 users on our iMac and my wife updated pages to 5.2, when i opened pages it asked if i wanted to update but i was in a hurry so said later. now i cannot get it to update.   any suggestions?
thanks

Answer 1

There is one Pages v5.2 available on your iMac for both of you. And, if you had the previous Pages ’09 v4.3 installed, it was moved to /Applications/iWork '09 folder, and is still available for use. Two Pages versions installed will produce challenges.
We are preconditioned to believe that a higher version must be a better, improved solution. Pages v5 is a complete rewrite/redesign that offers bugs and about 100 less features than v4.3. It is intuitive which is the better solution to use going forward. This decision can be fortified by reading the reviews in the App Store, and the endless posts here about Pages v5 issues.
The problem introduced with Pages v5 is an entirely new .pages document format that is incompatible with prior Pages applications. For instance, lets say that I have Pages ’09 v4.3 running, and double-click a Pages v5 document to open it. Here is the dialog box that results:
If the preceding document had been created with Pages ’08 or ’09, then the double-click would open it in the already running Pages ’09 application. If no Pages application were running, the double-click would attempt to open the document in Pages v5. If it is a .pages document created by Pages ’09, Pages v5.2 will open it without any warning about the earlier document format. As soon as you edit and save, it becomes a version 5 document that causes the above dialog when attempting to reopen it in Pages ’09.
When you have mixed Pages application versions and documents, it changes your workflow habits. You can now only open Pages ’09 documents with either a right-click on the document, and then choose Open With > Pages (4.3). Or, use the Pages ’09 open file browser.
I dragged the Pages ’09 and Pages v5.2 application icons to my Dock from their respective locations in /Applications/iWork '09 and /Applications. These Dock aliases make it somewhat easier to work with disparate .pages documents.