Numbers won't open but pages and keynote will

Hi,
I brought iWork as a download (serial number sent by email which I have misplaced!) and was working fine until about 1 month ago. I can still use Pages and Keynote fine, but Numbers won't open. I click the icon on my dock but it just comes up with a transparent ? over the icon instead of opening.
Anything I can do?

Michael Bacon wrote:
I fixed the problem by going here
http://support.apple.com/downloads/#iwork
download iWork 9.05 and it will make your Keynotes happy again.
For some reason it is not included in the "update software"
(1) are you sure that Software Update is supposed to deliver iWork's updates ? I'm not
(2) the OP's problem is not related to Keynote (with no S) which behave flawlessly (as well as Pages) on his machine but it's a Numbers one. It's logical as he asked in a Numbers dedicated forum.
So, I'm afraid that what was useful for you would be useless for him.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 7 avril 2011 13:41:01

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