Pages 09...Share via email

Trying to share via email in Pages 09. This option is grayed out.
Operating Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
Is there a compatibilty problem?
Thanks

Bad user interface design by Apple.
The greyed out item is actually a heading for the choices below them.
Apple should have made the choices a pop out menu, but I think this was done by the unpaid intern.
Peter

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The Share feature was not removed. It is located in the toolbar and looks like a box with an arrow pointing up next to the tips button. Take a look at the links below for how to do this and if you are missing that button, you can add it back by following the second article.
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