Help opening a .wps file on my macbook...

i just recently got a macbook, and i love it, but am still new to it.
i have some word documents on my external hard drive that are saved from my old windows based computer that i would like to open on my mac as the windows computer doesnt work any more.
any help with this would be appreciated.
thanks!

worse case?
download and install OPEN OFFICE.
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