Messed up old Pages documents?

When I open previous Pages documents, they are a mess. Graphics are gone and the text boxes are wrong. Is there a fix?

Venting your anger at the users here who are just trying to help other users is also a waste of time.
With one or two exceptions (some people do bizarre things like condemn the app and give it 3 stars) all the recent reviews are 1 star. It is steadily eroding the high ratings given Pages before Pages 5 and ultimately will drive the message home to Apple which otherwise doesn't care what its users think.
Until they stop buying.
Peter

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    http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
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