Receiver can't open Pages Document - Help!

Hello,
I have made track changes to a Pages document and need to send it to a colleague. I tried to send it as an attachment to email (yahoo and gmail accounts) and it failed. I then uploaded it to a Dropbox account but my colleage was not able to open it. Can anyone help? I don't want to send it as a pdf as there are over 500 tracked changes and the work will have to be redone.
Thanks. Jane

Pages v5.2.2 creates directories, not regular files. The only place where this directory actually appears as a regular file (to the user) is courtesy of the Finder on OS X. These Pages v5.2.2 directories are incompatible with Gmail, and Dropbox. You must first right-click on the Pages document, and then from the contextual menu, choose compress the document name. You now have filename.pages.zip, which to Gmail and Dropbox appear as an allowable document. The destination user would simply double-click this document to make it filename.pages.
There are some caveats. The recipient must be running OS X Mavericks or later, because this is a requirement for the Pages v5.2.2 application, which is the only application on the planet that can open Pages v5.2.2 documents. Otherwise, the recipient cannot open your document, unless they have Pages v2 or later on IOS 7 or 8.
I would have also mentioned Pages for iCloud beta, but since I do not have IOS 8, or Yosemite, I am blocked from accessing Pages for iCloud beta until I upgrade to iCloud Drive. Doing so, according to others, vanishes previous Pages documents stored in the older iCloud installation. Apple is at it again.

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