MS Word 2007 docs in Pages

Hi, I just moved to apple from PC. I have an iMac with OS X (Lion) and iWorks. In Pages, I'm having trouble in opening the file created in MS Word 2007. Any help please?

Ontopoftheworld wrote:
But my need here is to use some MS Word docs created earlier.
I am suggesting that you use TextEdit or OpenOffice to try to open those docs, since Pages is not working for you with them.  Is there some reason you cannot try that?
What is happening when you try with Pages?

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