Footnotes don't always transfer from Word (Mac) to Pages; advice?

I would love to use Pages instead of Word: it satisfies all my document needs but one! When I open a Word document (formatted as a Macintosh Word document) sometimes it works just fine, and all the formatting is correct -- and (most importantly) all the footnotes are transferred, too. But other times -- and there are many! -- only the formatted text transfers, not the notes. Curiously, the footnote superscripts transfer, but not the footnotes themselves. I have tried to use "Cmd-A" to see if that would work, but, clearly, it doesn't because it only captures *either* the text *or* the footnotes, but not both. This defect so cripples Pages for me that I can't plan on using it! Sad, because I otherwise like it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Test footnote import with .doc and .rtf formats, and see which format puts problems, as far as I noticed, it is rtf, even if rtf export is sometimes recommended, e.g. if you work with Mellel, which ALWAYS deals better with rtf than doc. Also test which apps puts such problems, am not sure all apps and all generations of Office have the same results, unfortunately.

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