IWork apps start but will not open a doc nor start a new doc. Just quits!

I have just bought a new 15" Macbook pro with Mavericks. It has Pages, Numbers and Keynote (apparantly) installed.
I have updated to Mavericks 10.9.2 and the Appstore offered updates to Pages, Numbers and Keynote which I did.
However, when I start any of these apps, the relevent menu appears, the relevent icon appears on the dock but that is all!
The 'New' menu item does nothing. The 'Open' item opens a file selection window but after selecting a (relevent) file the app
quits with a message 'Pages (or Numbers or Keynote) quit unexpectedly'. Even the 'About' menu does nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas?  (I have sent a report to Apple - but don't really expect any response.)

For anyones info . . .
I solved this problem myself.
I removed all iwork apps.
I was unable to re-install iwork apps because the Appstore insisted they were already installed !
So . . .
1. Use 'CleanMyMac' and remove ALL trace of iwork, pages, numbers and keynote
2. Install iWork 09 - I borrowed a coleague's DVD
3. Install iwork 09.3 update - as above
4. The Appstore then re-offered a Pages, Numbers and Keynote update
5. Do the updates
Voila! - the apps now work OK

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