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I recently upgraded to Yosemite and began using Pages 5. Now I'm realizing it is missing many features I need--features that Pages 4.3 had. Naturally I want to just switch back to the old version.
I can see Pages 4.3 in my Applications folder, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Right clicking and choosing "Open" also does nothing. Attempting to open a Pages '09 file by right clicking and choosing to open it with Pages 4.3 also does nothing.
I've deleted Pages 5 so now I have no other program that could open a Pages document. Clicking on a Pages document does nothing--no response.
Please tell me there is a way I can use version 4.3 with Yosemite. Has anyone had a similar problem and been able to solve it? Thanks in advance.

There are no official Apple Pages '09 trial downloads available. If you got this from a filesharing site, it could contain malware, and is not to be trusted.
Unless you still have an official Apple iWork '09 DVD installer, you would be better served to purchase ($21 USD) it again from Amazon, so you absolutely know it has integrity. Then follow that installation directly with the iWork 9.3 updater, which updates the iWork '09 applications to their last revision — and allows the associated applications to run on Yosemite.
Since the last updates to Pages '09 v4.3 came out one month before Microsoft released Office 2013, your mileage may vary with documents created on a PC with Word 2013. Pages '09 v4.3 on Yosemite has also lost the ability to Share ▸ Send via Mail, and you will have to export, and then manually attach documents to Mail.

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