Pages will not open some MS Word files!!!! Frustrated

Hi there,
This could be something really simple but I am getting really annoyed at it not working. I have Pages 08 and am trying to import documents from Microsoft Word 2003. The documents have .doc extensions, which Apple says are fully supported. I have managed to open a few very simple documents of this type, that contain only one or two words, so I don't think that it is an unsupported version of MS Word. When I try to import files, Pages comes up with this:
Import Error: The file format is invalid
The documents are NOT large, only a few kb's.
Thanks, I really hope someone may be able to help me!!!

There are such a lot of things that could go wrong in MS Word that it is impossible to tell what goes wrong in yours.
May I guess that they all come from the same source and perhaps use the same original template? They may have the same author, who uses an unusual kind of logo in the header, which makes Pages choke.
To get them into Pages, try opening them in another application first and then save them from that application. You could try TextEdit, NeoOffice or AbiWord for example. They are all free and TextEdit is already on your harddisk.

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