IWork Pages crash on save

Question

Hi, my Macbook Pro freezes whenever I try to save my pages document.
Or to be precise, it sort of manages to save it.. . but everything goes at glacier speed and I can't do anything for about half an hour or so.
However, if I "save as" a .doc file then it's ok.
Can someone help me? It's really annoying and I've lost quite a few documents.
thanks..

Answer 1

Dear Peter,
Thank you for your warm welcome.
+All Pages documents behave this way?+
Yes, as far as I know. New ones, old ones, old imported .doc files.
+Have you used a particular template? Have you tried creating a Pages document from a blank template, using standard fonts like Times, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans…?+
Yes, I do use a particular template (one with a date field) but as per your suggestion, started testing different templates. It seems to be the same.
+Have you upgraded iWork '09 to the latest version? How did you upgrade to OSX 10.62? Did you use Software Update or the downloadable larger Combo updater? There is a problem with the Hoefler Text font in both earlier versions of 10.6 and the Software Update upgrade.+
I bought this laptop in October last year, and just installed iWorks. So I think it came with 10.6.2
if not, it must have been upgraded in a software upgrade.
As far as I know, iWork is up to date.
Any other suggestions? many thanks for your help so far...