Pages hangs on opening any word processing template
Have re-created the problem consistently.
Deleted plists for pages and iwork from root level and user library preferences, deleted and re-installed the application a number of times. Any page layout template will open, but attempting to open any of the word processing templates causes the beachball to appear and I have to force quit pages. This, after having used the program quite extensively.
Who told you to
Deleted plists for pages and iwork from root level
They have no effect on the way the program behaves.
At this time, I have no idea about what may cause the described behavior for Word Processor documents.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 25 octobre 2008 13:28:14)
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