Lock pages document while editing

Hi,
I need to have multiple users contribute to the same pages document. The document has been placed on a network share. Currently Pages 09 allows different people in different offices open the same document, make changes and save. When they do that the changes made by other users who have it open at the same time are discarded.
If the document is actively being modified by one person I'd like to prevent it from being edited by anyone else.
Word on the PC only allows others to open it in read only mode if someone else currently has it open. It would be great if I could make pages do that.
Thank you!

Called Apple support, talked to pages department. According to the representative I spoke with, pages is designed for individual single users, not necessarily schools or corporate collaborative multi-user environments.
The rep said a feature request would be sent to engineering regarding locking the document so multiple people can't edit it at the same time discarding each others changes. I need to purchase office 2011 and do some testing in the mean time I guess.
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