Microsoft office files not opening in iWork

i cant open the word and excel files im getting in emails on iwork!!
please help.
Thanks

Hi sheryarlatif,
I am using Numbers'09 2.3 (554) Pages'09 4.3 (1048) and OSX 10.8.3
I have no trouble opening Word .doc or .docx nor Excel .xls or .xlsx files from Windows users by email.
Even with OSX 10.8.2 I had no problem.
Sure, I get warnings (paragraph borders not compatible, missing fonts). To paraphrase Clinton, conversion to and from iWork and those Mac-look-alike-things on Windows is not perfect.
As a short-term solution, ask your Windows friends to convert their documents to Rich Text Format (RTF) or even plain text before emailing them to you.
I do not know why you are having trouble. Perhaps you should re-post your question in this forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages
Regards,
Ian.

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