Cant oppen some word docs in Pages - it works with others

why cant I open some word documents in Pages - others work fine?

As per Apple support at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4641
Pages for iOS can open
Pages ’09 for Mac
Microsoft Word - Office Open XML (.docx) and Office 97 or later (.doc)
Plain Text files (.txt)
Ensure your files are in one of the above formats and all should be fine.

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