How do I make my old "Appleworks" documents, open in "Pages", on our new Apple with Lion?

We wrote letters on Applescript for 7 years on our former Imac G5. All were put in our new
Imac, and I marked Imack intel, but I'm not sure what the name of this new desktop with huge screen, is.
But now old letters must be opened in "Numbers", which has a check mark as Default,
and a right clik on the wireless mouse MUST be done, to choose to open it in Pages-
every single one of hundreds of letters (documents).
How do I make open in Pages the Default?
This is even more important, as the wireless mouse is not being recognized, so we bought a
wired mouse, which is like our old one and easier for my husband to use.
But the wired mouse does not have that R clik, and so I can't open ANY documents.
Thanks to anyone who can help.

For individual files, you can just drag the file onto the Pages icon in the Dock.
If your mouse doesn't have a Right click, hold the ctrl key when clicking. Apple for many years only had single-button mice, so that method has always been present.

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