I have just gotten i Work 09. I needed to make a new volunteer sign up sheet for a meeting and opened the one made last year in Pages 08. I made the few changes needed for the event and hit save. It then said "This document was created using an earlier version of Pages. To maintain the ability to open the document with earlier versions, click Save As and choose an application version." If I put v. 5.0 will it then allow me to open all subsequent versions? Or do I have to look at Get Info for every document I open to find out which one I created it in? When I am doing flyers, newsletters for our group it might be some years before I have to go back and look at an older version and decide to to incorporate something from it in the new document. Or do I save it as Pages 09 and then that retains what I was originally working on? At the moment I have Pages 05, Pages 08 and the new 09. But the time may come when I need more room and have to remove stuff from the computer and old versions might be the first to go.
This brings up the problem of converting old documents. I have things that go back to the original MacWrite that I have faithfully converted from then to MacWrite Pro, ClarisWorks, AppleWorks and now have to decide to convert them to Pages 09. As long as I have a copy of AppleWorks 6.0 I will have a way to get back to the original. I went to Pages 09 because all the information indicated that it would still recognize AppleWorks. I do have some old documents from earlier versions of Appleworks. Do I need to open these in Pages 05 or can I open them directly into Pages 09?