How can i open a MS Word document

with Mac users being only 5-10% of the computer world, I would feel that I would be able to open and or send a word document, but I had a doc emailed to me and nothing I do will open it.........i'm sure there must be a way, right?

Use TextEdit, LibreOffice, Pages, Google Docs, Microsoft Office 2008 or newer, or similar software.
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