This has been a bad few months, Apple-wise, so I am not surprised that Option 4 does not work for me.
I get an error message when I try to open an older Pages document, in the older (and, oh, so great) version of Pages. I followed the steps carefully, but there has been so much mess-up between versions on my new Mac, that it is probably hopeless. The message, which I have received on several ocasions, is that I cannot use that older version of Pages (4.3) on the new machine. As it is, I am now using Open Office to create rtf files so that I can avoid the latest version of Pages (great fun!) .
I am using Mavericks, in OS X 10.9.1, on a late-2013 MacBook Pro 15" Retina display machine that has already had one logic board replaced by Apple, and is still acting like it has a flawed logic board--I'm into the 4th month of no satisfactory resolution after purchasing it. After 13 years and 7 Macs (six of which were grand machines), I feel like I have gone back to the 1990s and the PC/Microsoft traumaverse. How could Apple be so stupid as to dumb-down a great software package?
So, it looks like OpenOffice will be the new kid in our office (unless I choose to use my most-expensive-Mac-ever as the paperweight it seems destined to become, and go back to my slow-but-reliable 2008 model--which does have the REAL Pages still working nicely.
On the plus side, I was heartened by all of your contributions to resolving a problem that should have been workable on my machine, but isn't. But, then, my new machine sometimes fails when I attempt to save a file . . .