Cant open word files from mac side

hi all
have just installed windows 7 and the office suite and all seems to work fine until i try and open any word files that are located in my mac partition. it suggests that i need to open and repair but this doesnt solve the problem. i can open excel and pdf files however. do i need to change permissions or is this something that is not possible to do.
many thanks for any help
craig

I'm having the same problem also. I can't open any office suite files (word, excel...). I think the problem has to do with the os x partition being read-only. When I copy and paste the office files from the os x partition onto the windows partition and open the document, everything works. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

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