Using Pages in Word environment

I have a little problem. Pages is wonderful. I love it. The problem is, I work in a legal environment where only one copy of any give file can exist. I can't have multiple revisions of legal documents running around. While Pages will open a Word document, it does not keep the Word filename, nor can I simply Save over the original file I just finished editing. This is problematic in that I may end up having a couple of slightly misnamed files - you can imagine the repurcussions of that in the legal field. Does anyone know of a workaround, or a patch or something from Apple in which I can use Pages as my word processor of choice? I am currently stuck using that kludge called Microsoft Word.
Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Even though I did not ask the initial question, I have some comments to this.
There is no autosave in Pages. This means that you frequently have to make manual saves of your revisions.
In "native" formats you simply do ⌘+s after a major modification, and you know it's safely saved to the harddisk.
To "export" to Word you have to go File > Export > Choose format > Navigate to the right directory (or at least verify that you are there) > type the original filename OR select the right one of the many files in that directory. This is time consuming and error prone.
And as a minor point, imported documents don't appear in the recently used document menu.
Most of the Word documents I have are simple, and formating is no problem. However, the export procedure is. And that is one of my main reasons for not using Pages as my main and only word processor. Feedback has been left for Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html .

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