Upgrading older Page documents

Please confirm for me my understanding of this problem. When I try to open older Pages documents in Yosemite, the message is "to open the document, save it with Pages '09 first". For the record, after upgrading to Yosemite, there is no iWork '09 folder in my Applications folder.
I doubt that I have used many (or any) of the features that didn't migrate from Pages '09. My desire is merely to upgrade the documents to the current version.
As I understand it, the solution is:
1. Reinstall iWork '09 from the DVD (which I have).
2. Download and apply iWork Update 9.3
3. Open older files and save them as Pages '09 documents; then open them again with current version of Pages.
Can someone please confirm that steps 1. and 2. are correct, and that they do not present any problems on a MacBook Pro (late 2013) running Yosemite.
Thanks much.

It sounds to me as though you have some legacy Pages ’08 documents that Pages v5 dropped support. If you still have access to Pages ’08, export the problematic '08 documents to MS Word .doc, and then open these with Pages v5.5. That would avoid steps 1 - 3 altogether.
Otherwise, steps 1 - 3 are correct. Here again, you could also export them as MS Word documents too — as backups.
Pages v5.5 lacks about 100+ features/functionality that was available in Pages ’09 v4.3. Consequently, it will filter out document content that it does not support, such as some templates, linked Text boxes, the use of Mail Merge, bookmarks… ad nauseum. Then it autosaves it in v5.5 .pages format to the same ’09 filename sans your original content.

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