Document attachment won't open in pages

I have installed pages on my iPad 2 and when I am emailed a document, PDF,doc,ppt, I don't have the option to open it in pages. The only option I get it to print it. Shouldn't I be able to move into pages from my mail program?

If the document is a word doc (.doc) or a pages document (.pages) and you have properly installed Pages on your iPad, you should see an option to Open In... when you tap and hold.
You can't open .ppt documents unless you have Keynote installed
You can't open PDFs unless you have a PDF reader installed.
Since you have installed Pages on your iPad, and it isn't working, I would suggest trying two things:
1. Do a full shutdown and restart - double click your home button, tap and hold on one of the running apps icons until you see them all wiggle and offer a "-" badge, then tap each "-" badge to shut them down. Then click and hold the Home and Sleep Buttons until you see the shutdown slider - Shutdown. Wait a minute or so then restart your iPad. You will see the Apple Logo appear. When the iPad is restarted, open your Mail app and tap and hold on your email attachment and see what happens.
2. If that doesn't fix the problem (and the attachment is a .doc or pages document), the next step would be to do a full reset and restore, but try the first action before you get that far.
You might contact the sender to confirm the type of document you have received. Can't hurt. Sometimes things get corrupted - ask them to resend in a format that you can read. See the iOS iPad User Guide (found under the Bookmarks Icon in your Safari app) - see the section on Mail Attachments.
If you don't have Keynote or Numbers installed, I would recommend them or other apps that can read your email attachments such as OpenDocs, etc.
Also, if you don't have iBooks, it is worth the download.
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