How do you unlock a pages document?  nothing I see on the forums duplicates my situation.

how do you unlock a document in pages that doesn't say "locked" at the top of the page??? 

Thanks for answering me!  You might not be reading my question correctly because I think I am confused.  So now I have a couple questions.  I have never used the the Document Inspector to lock a file so that is not the issue.  It has not asked for a password either. 
When you said a document will be locked after a period of time I have experienced that but usually it drops a box down asking if you want to unlock it.  When you said, "as determined by my System Preferences" I dont' see anything in system preferences about documents.....what am I missing here??  I am using Lion 10.7.4.  So I would like to know the answer to that. I am wondering if you meant it can be set to lock or not lock???
That said.....in the meantime I had done a duplicate and then made it a template just to see if I could accomplish what I was trying to do and that didn't work either.  SOooooooo let me ask you this.....what I did was take a bunch of clip art off the internet and put it all on one document page in Pages.  I named it "tropical clip art."  When I open that document I can not drag and drop any of the clip art anywhere.  Not to my desktop, not to another document etc.  That is what made me think it was locked.  The document name is at the top and it has "edit" greyed out next to the name.  What the heck am I doing wrong?  I am fairly new to Pages altho been an Apple user for awhile.  I have always fuddled my way through using Pages.  If I can not put the clip art on a document to save it all in one place, what is my other option?  I was trying to avoid going back onto the internet repeatedly to get clip art I want to use over and over.  It is free clip art.  If I go to the internet I can drag and drop it anywhere.
When I try to drag and drop it off the Pages document it disappears and I have to go to "undo typing" under edit to get it back.  Am I making any sense??
And this is my very first time on these forums too so that took me a bit to figure out.
Thanks so much!!!!!

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