Problems with Pages not working

Hi. Thanks for offering to help me. It took me awhile to (figure out how to) find your reply so I hope I can find you again once you reply to this message.

I found the version of macSO I have. Says I have Sonoma 14.1.2 . When I try to click the options button, (I am using a windows keyboard so I believe I press the Alt key) the program opens and the wheel starts turning and that's me done! No ability to do anything. The screen is locked on Image Styles and it won't let me exit or cancel or delete or even trash what I was trying to copy and paste. It's been spinning for over an hour now and i will once again force quit.

I can not find my version of Pages but I can tell you it is likely at least 6 or more years old (likely even older but not sure b/c my SIL installed it for me) He uses Windows and is not familiar with Mac's so doesn't know how to help me with this issue.

Everything worked great until the last update that I did. Usually with an update my ability to attach photos to FB or Messenger doesn't work. I have to wait till they do a "fix" update and in the meantime I need to do a work around. It happens a LOT. I was so thrilled that my photos would download for me to attach after this last update. Then this. lol

I am wondering if I should try to do another update and see if it corrects itself?? I think - but can't be sure - it was version 17???something. I really didn't pay attention but I will make notes going forward.

OR, is there somewhere/somehow I can get/buy/install a newer version of Pages to see if that is the problem?

I don't use it for anything other than basic tasks. Nothing fancy or unique. I cut & paste info/articles/photos from the internet as well as my own photos.

Sorry that's all the info I have for you. Thoughts?

Hi again Viking OSX,, I found the version of pages I have. my iPad says 13.2 (7038.0.87) and when i was doing the force quite - I clicked "report" and also found the same version number on my desktop computer.

Hope that helps. thanks

Still remains unuseable. Held the shift key down and clicked the Pages icon to launch. Once again, all I get is the twirling multicoloured circle. Not able to close the page I was on or open any of the drop down options to access any of my other pages.

No virus or anti-virus/cleaner apps. The content (article) was on the internet and I had wondered if it was way over my iCloud allowance but there were no notices saying this. However...I am getting a message on my email that tells me I am almost out of icloud storage. There were some photos that accompanied the article and I've never had a problem before but this could absolutely be the issue.

Now, my problem is how do I delete this article? As soon as I open the program the beachball starts spinning forever. A few times it has stopped but once i move the cursor it starts up again!! Only tried to copy & paste the article from the internet to Pages. IF you have some advice as to how to delete it that would be great and i will never do it again.

I realize just buying more storage spage might solve the problem but I do not use my computer enough to warrant that. I look forward to your suggestions. thanks again

Checked that - answer is above.