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This has happened twice already in a row: I perform changes to a file, and Pages will later on display a previous version of that same file. As a consequence, I lose ALL of the changes I have done.
This had not happened before, and I'm running an updated version of the app.
Did anyone have the same problem and was able to solve it?
Thank you.

JennyThorpe wrote:
I am trying to do a resume (used one of the templetes on Pages). When I change the font and the color of the font and try to save it as a .doc, then I get out of it and get back into the document, it doesn't save it. In fact it, when I save it and then go back in one time the color has changed back to the original, then the next time I save what I want and go back in, the text in one line has changed back to a different font. It just goes back and forth like this when I save the document. This is only happening in the header. Please help. I have tried to change and save what I want for hours now but what I want the font and color to look like is not "sticking".
If you save the document as a .doc do you get the changes in that document?
Do you mean by " get back into the document, it doesn't save it" that it isn't saved in Pages? If you haven't saved the Pages document it will not remember your changes. If you mean that the template you have used doesn't remember your changes it doesn't, never, because the template is just that. You have to save the changed document as a template and it will be saved in "My Templates" and found in the template chooser.

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