Pages 09 (4.3) won't open iCloud Pages 5 docs

Hi all. I'm running Pages 09 (4.3) on my MacBook Pro and Pages 5 on my iPad. The Mac won't open documents created on the iPad: it tells me I need a newer version. When I open the App Store, it says 'installed' and there's no option for a newer version (is there one?).
Any ideas? Thanks,
Aidan

If you are running the newest iOS version of Pages on your iPad, then only Pages 5.0 (Mavericks) can open those documents on your Mac.
Apple designed it this way.
Your only option is to EXPORT from your iPad version of Pages into a format from which you can then IMPORT on your Mac running pages 4.3.

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