Pages won't open Pages document created last week

Having created a pages doc last week in Pages 09, OSX 10.7.5, I find that this week I can see it in Finder, see a thumbnail, open it with Quick Look but cannot open it in Pages for some reason ?

Thanks, I managed to answer my own question in the end, I had a version of iWorks on the machine and subsequently I got the latest version of Pages from teh App store. What seemed to be happening was that the document was being written in one version but associated with the other version. I removed both and re-installed from the App store and that seemed to resolve the issue. Why this only started happening recently when both versions have been on the machine for some time !
Anyhow, thanks for your response - maybe this will help others.

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+Odd behavior of tables in Pages documents created by a script+
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