Can't open .doc files.

I just went back to Mac and all my documents are .doc. I used to use my friends macbook and I thought I was able to open them. Please don't tell me I have to buy another program to open these. I seem to remember saving them as docx. Please someone refresh my memory.
Thanks

OpenOffice (free), or MS Office 2008/2011 or Pages

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Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, Pages won't let me open doc files.
Is there a way I can fix this?
Also...I was just thinking about upgrading to the newer iLife09.
Would that be a better thing to do running Snow Leopard and what not?
And if I do upgrade to iLife09, I'll still be able to open iLife08 documents.
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-Nathan Rojas

Nathan Rojas wrote:
Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, Pages won't let me open doc files.
Is there a way I can fix this?
Also...I was just thinking about upgrading to the newer iLife09.
Would that be a better thing to do running Snow Leopard and what not?
And if I do upgrade to iLife09, I'll still be able to open iLife08 documents.
Thanks
-Nathan Rojas
iLife & iWork are two separate software packages/suites sold by Apple. I do believe you mean iWork '08.
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Very interesting. It was written for doc type files: "OpenOffice Writer (defined)". (I made a translation maybe it is "default" in English version). Then i make it use another program and choose "Open Office Writer". Now it says OpeOffice Writer but no definer (or default) and it is working. Thank you very much Gnospen.

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Ok I forgot to try to hit Open With for Word and that worked for one document but I still want to know how to get it open in pages.
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