How to merge 2 (or more documents) in pages 5?

Question

I am using Pages 5.0.1 (and no option to go back to previous versions of pages) and created several documents which I would like to merge into one.
Just found out how to add extra pages to a document in this new version, but now how do I copy and paste other documents to this document?
It's not only text, but also background color, headers, titles, photo's etc. Drag and drop from the thumbnail view doesn't work. Select all and copy+paste doesn't work either (only some sections will copy & paste) Documents are to large/complicated to copy/paste every section by hand.
I need something that copy/paste the page/document in one go.
Does anyone have a great idea how to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

igm32
The problem is that whilst staying with Pages '09 may be sticking with an old deadend solution, it is at least one that works and will keep you going till something better comes along. I suggest that that something better, in all probability, will not be from Apple.
The material from Pages '09 and the other iWork suite apps is useful and can be output as .pdfs, hard print or Word .doc files.
Moving to Pages 5 is not a solution because it is such a feature cut down .app that it fails to do the designated job and so buggy and untrustworthy that you are putting major jobs into something that are very likely to catastrophically fail further down the track.
There are two major concerns with Pages 5.
There are so many missing features, all awaiting Apple's reinstatement (not that it has said it will), that at best it will be a very uncertain moving beast. Will it even be compatible with itself? Over what period of time?
Final Cut Pro X is 3 years on and still awaiting removed features and is not a direct comparison with software that was cut down to fit a simpler functionality in iOS.
The file format is obscure, unparsable by anything else, bloated and also a moving target. It can only be opened, and that with problems, by software running on a very narrow spectrum of hardware and software.
It can not be run on older systems than the current OSX 10.9 Mavericks, older iOS than the current iOS 7, and through a very oddball iWork for iCloud that stays in a category of its own and in perpetual beta. Forget about working with hardware that does not support any of these Systems and largely forget about the vast majority of PC users.
For the many reasons stated above and in these forums, existing iWork users, the vast majority of users will be avoiding the new software (over 70% of them say they hate it in the App Store), so will not be partners to any transition.
That leaves only new, naïve and non-expert users who are unaware or don't care that will use the new software. Not good company if you want a thriving software community. The companies that supplied templates and other files for the previous versions will have been stung badly and I doubt they will embrace the new version with any enthusiasm, as it works its way out of essential uselessness into a repeat of the same ambush scenario we just had.
Lastly Mavericks itself is a problem. Because it cuts down features and excudes productive use in many areas, the take up rate has been remarkably slow, despite Apple giving it away for free. Just like Pages, Keynote and Numbers. It seems to be worth what they are charging and may even have a hidden cost of lost work. There is no financial incentive to invest in products you are giving away.
The only hope we have of getting out of this vast mess of Apple's creation is that someone else steps into the breach.
Microsoft has dug itself into a similar hole with Windows 8. PC users are more able to express their dissatisfaction because they are free to choose from alternatives, even with new hardware purchases. Apple's downturn in sales may be temporary or not, we will find out, but when your products are not moving as well, p!ssing off your customers is really not the way to go.
Are you really going to put your jobs into an obscure format that, on painful experience, will sooner rather than later get trashed without notice and can't be read by anything else?
Peter