Has it gotten easier to work with Word?

Hi!
I'm thinking about buying iWorks '08 but I don't know if I should wait until Office 2008 hits the stores. I have used Pages, but switched to Office 2004 because every time I got a .doc file I had to open it (if Pages could) save it as a Pages file if I needed to work on it and export it again when it was ready to be send back. This is not very smart if you share documents a lot which I do.
So what I want to know is, can I in Pages '08 open a .doc/.docx and save it as that? I will I have to go through the annoying import - save - export thing again?
Thanks

Rune,
Sorry to say that Pages 3 isn't any more adept at working with Word docs as previous versions of Pages were. You'll still have to export the file, rather than just saving it.
-Dennis

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