IWork - Pages Will not Open

I reviewed a previous post of the same problem, the solutions provided did not fix my problem.
When I open Pages or Numbers they crash immediately. I have re-installed the software, deleted the .plist files etc. still no luck.
Anyone with suggestions?

Grasping at straws a bit here, but do you have any third-party templates installed? If so, you might try removing them if you can and see if that makes any difference. Another thing you can try: go to this folder
/Users/youruser/Library/Caches
and delete all the iWork-releated files (there will be at least three). Then try launching Pages and Numbers and see if that helps. If not, then you might try completely uninstalling iWork - make sure you get all the application support files in the Library/Application Support/ folder - and reinstalling and perhaps that will fix the problem.
Good luck.

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