Pages hangs when I do "Find and Replace"

Three times in the last month, Pages '08 has frozen on me when trying to do a simple search-and-replace in a document. The document was imported as a Word doc, and had (scattered throughout it) some straight quotes. In the past, I have been able to do a search-and-replace of all the quotes within the document, and it would replace them with smart quotes. But for about a month now, doing that causes Pages '08 to choke. I left it all night long once, and in over eight hours it still was frozen with the spinning beach ball. This is a recent development, and sadly, I don't have free support any more. I tried repairing permissions, and the did not help anything.
Any ideas, anyone??

If you download WordService, free from http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/index.html you can easily change your quotes by selecting all and in the Services menu click on Smart Quotes. WordService will also reformat, change cases, remove links, extra returns, extra spaces, and much, much more.
Walt

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