Viewing Maverick Pages documents on Yosemite

An Apple Store replaced my iMac Maverick desktop hard drive(HD) with a Yosemite HD. I later migrated my Documents from the Maverick HD to the Yosemite HD. Yosemite will not now allow me to open or view many of them. Error Message is, "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document." On Yosemite, I use MS Word, which I prefer, and I do not want to use, upgrade to, or buy Pages 5.5.2. Is there a work-around?

So it seems you have Pages '09, not Pages '08. That will open Pages '08 files.
Pages '09 should work fine in Yosemite OS X 10.10 so long as it has been updated to v4.3.
Select the Pages '09 App inside the folder and Get Info to see what version it is.
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I've a little background story:
Earlier, like maybe 3 weeks, I logged into my iCloud account on iCloud.com, to access a Keynote presentation. To open it I was forced to upgrade to iCloud Drive - bear in mind this was before iOS 8 or Yosemite were released. So I upgraded to iCloud Drive and everything went fine after that. Although every time I had to access or create a new document on my Mac in Pages, I got this message which said something like: "iCloud Drive isn't supported for Mavericks. You will need to upgrade to Yosemite, to keep all your documents up to date across all devices."
I just closed it every time it showed, didn't gave it a simple thought. Because of this every document that were created AFTER upgrading to iCloud Drive, got this little label under it saying: "Waiting". I know that it means it is waiting for syncing to my iCloud account, but again I just thought it would sync after upgrading to Yosemite.
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So I'm kinda screwed as of right now.
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File ▹ Open
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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.
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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.
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Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
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