Pages returning error message "The document (name) couldn't be opened"

Okay so here is my problem: I made a document in Pages the other day (a list of books I own) and after spending an hour or so on it I saved, closed Pages and went and did something else. The next day I came to open it again to add something and Pages came up with this message "The document (document naem) couldn't be opedned". That it, nothing else, no reason why or anything. I tried again and again, the same thing happednd. I tried to open it with Text Edit and got this error: "The document (document name) could not be opened. The file isn't in the correct format. The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpected format."
Okay so something is wrong. The weird thing is I can quick look it, I can open it in Preview fine.
So after trying everything I could think of I decided a few days later to just remake the document, I had all the information there so it was a bit easier this time. I started afresh. I frequently saved, quited and re opened just to make sure everything was okay, after a while I stopped doing this as it seemed everything was okay. I finished, saved and then tried to reopen it to make sure it was fine. It wouldn't open and returned the same error as before!!!
This is utterly preplexing and extremely frustrating. I have no idea what might be causing this. If anyone can offer some help that would be great.
Thanks in advance :-)

Where are you saving the files to?
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