Pages 4.9 will open Appleworks Documents, but I Pages 5 will not.  What am I missing? or is the software just not as good as 4.9?

Pages 4.3 will open Appleworks Power PC Documents, but I Pages 5 will not.  What am I missing? or is the software just not as good as 4.3?

"Some users have reported" is a mild way to put it.  To answer your question "or is the software just not as good as 4.3?" more directly... it's only better in transparency between platforms.  Everything else is pretty gutted.  Dozens of features deleted, as listed occassionally in this long thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5468056?tstart=0
Oh, one other improvement- it DOES run faster, but then of course it would since it's so much more lightweight.

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