Opening keynote and pages

How do I get Keynote and Pages to open ? Using OS 10.4.5. Keynote quits when I attempt to open it. Pages won't open the template chooser menu.

Since both Keynote and Pages are showing difficulties I immediately suspect a bad installation especially if you've never been able to get these programs to run. If this is the case, throw the iWork folder into the trash and empty it. Then reinstall the program.
If you have been able to run the programs in the past, look in your Preferences folder ( your account /Library/Preferences for the Keynote and Pages plists and delete them. Then see if you can run the programs.

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    0000000010 00000 n
    0000000063 00000 n
    0000000125 00000 n
    0000000251 00000 n
    0000000305 00000 n
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    /Root 1 0 R
    startxref
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    %%EOF
    ==============
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    endobj
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    /Parent 2 0 R
    /MediaBox [0 0 612 792 ]
    /Contents 4 0 R
    /Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R >>
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    4 0 obj
    <</Length 0 >>
    stream
    endstream
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    xref
    0 6
    0000000000 65535 f
    0000000010 00000 n
    0000000063 00000 n
    0000000125 00000 n
    0000000251 00000 n
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    /Root 1 0 R
    startxref
    331
    %%EOF
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    /Pages 2 0 R
    @dummy2@
    endobj
    2 0 obj
    <</Type /Pages
    /Kids @dummy1@3 0 R]
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    endstream
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    xref
    0 6
    0000000000 65535 f
    0000000010 00000 n
    0000000063 00000 n
    0000000125 00000 n
    0000000251 00000 n
    0000000305 00000 n
    trailer
    << /Size 6
    /Root 1 0 R
    @dummy2@
    startxref
    331
    %%EOF
    ===============
    === example2.pdf ===
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    1 0 obj
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    /Pages 2 0 R
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    /Parent 2 0 R
    /MediaBox @dummy1@0 0 612 792 ]
    /Contents 4 0 R
    /Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R @dummy2@
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    endobj
    4 0 obj
    <</Length 0 @dummy2@
    stream
    endstream
    endobj
    5 0 obj
    @dummy1@/PDF ]
    endobj
    xref
    0 6
    0000000000 65535 f
    0000000010 00000 n
    0000000063 00000 n
    0000000125 00000 n
    0000000251 00000 n
    0000000305 00000 n
    trailer
    << /Size 6
    /Root 1 0 R
    @dummy2@
    startxref
    331
    %%EOF
    ===============
    Message was edited by: Akira Okumura

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