I can´t open downloaded documents anymore

I had no problems with leopard, but since I installed snow leopard (and also afterwards mavericks) I can´t open most files I download from my firefox gmail or hotmail. I want to open a word or pages file with pages and it is the standard program for opening the file but everytime I get the message that I cannot open it.
Can someone help me to solve this?

Maysun wrote:
...I have also tried updating pages and done a restart but it doesn´t help.
It is pages ´09 version 4.0 (727)
I have no experience with Pages but it's common for newer versions of software to be compatible with earlier file format versions of the same program but not the other way around. From what I've read, there were substantial changes from version 4 to version 5, and it's likely the new files you're downloading were created or updated in the newer version.
On further investigation, it looks like "you can't get there from here" and you have company in that. See this discussion for why you can't unless you upgrade to version 5 and lose a lot of features.

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