How do I make Microsoft Office my default for opening documents?

Is there a way to have all word documents and pages documents only open up in word?
As well as excel documents?
Some of my documents open in word and others open in pages by default. I want them all to be the same, and to only open in Microsoft Office programs.
I have the new imac with OSX 10.9
Thanks!

Microsoft Office can't open documents saved in the native Pages format. For compatible document types, select one of them in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, click on Open With, select the desired application, and press the Change All button.
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Hi skymedic: Quite easy to set the default program actually. Find a file you need to open, single click. then Right Click and select "Get Info". When this window opens, select the program to be used then click "Change All'. Please note you will need to do this for all file types you want to open with Office. EG: .DOC .PPS .PPT .XLS etc..
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