Pages won't open any documents?

I have 5 users. 2 Admin (Parents), 3 (Kids).
Pages has stopped working on my (Admin) login, but works fine on the other 4.
How can I fix this? Thanks

SuportID,
Based on what we know, your Pages issue is unique to your admin account on a five-user machine. Attempts to open new blank documents, other templates, or existing documents fail with Pages hung. We have cleaned local and system caches, rebuilt the font database, removed Pages preference(s), and found that Pages acts no differently in Safe Boot Mode as it does under normal boot.
When OS X installs new user accounts, it also sets Access Control Lists on home directories, and the folders within that have an icon on them such as Library, Music, Documents, etc. If these ACL get changed or corrupted, your account access may not work correctly. This can happen when restoring home directories from a backup that may have corrupted these ACL. There is a simple process to reset them to original state.
Reboot into recovery mode holding either of following keys
command+R
option key
Choose Recovery partition
From Utilities menu, run the terminal app
type the followingresetpassword
A panel appears
You will not be resetting any passwords
At the bottom is the option to reset ACL - choose this onlyResets ACL as originally established during account setup
Quit recovery and boot normally
Try Pages again - new or existing files in your home directory
If Pages is still ornery after the above steps, press shift+command+U (opens /Applications/Utilities) and select the Console application. In its left panel under FILES, select system.log. In the bottom panel, lower right, select Now. And in the search window where it says String Matching, type in Pages, using leading capital. Now launch Pages again and attempt to access a local file. See what messages appear regarding this Pages session.

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