Saved pages documents won't open

I have suddenly developed an issue with my "Pages" documents that have been saved.
I am not able to open "any" of them. All but one is grayed out and will not open.
This is something that just recently, as in the last few days, has happened.
I had several copies of my resume stored on my desk top that had been created and saved on
a laptop computer using a MS Word program. I had been using them to download to job applications on line.
They are not able to read the copies saved as a pages document.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Sillygma

Did you create your resumés in Pages '08?
And have you upgraded recently to OSX 10.9 Mavericks and Pages 5.2?
Because Pages 5.2 can not open Pages '08 files.
However Pages '08 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder. Open the files with that.
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