How do I open Word documents in Pages?

I'm new to Mac and I'm having trouble opening my Word documents in Pages.
When I tried opening one of my documents ending in .doc it gives me this error message : import error the file format is invalid.
When then tried a document ending in .docx  import error : an unknown error occurred.
The documents I tried to open are documents I made recently on my PC so they should not be corrupted.
Could someone help me.

Try saving these documents from your PC in an older format. It could be that you have features in your version of Word that are confusing Pages.
Jerry

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