How to set Pages and Numbers to become default applications for attachment?

I installed Leopard and have just installed iWork.
I started noticing that the applications of .doc and .xls that come in file attachments in my mail do not use Pages and Numbers as their default application.
.doc uses TextEdit
I copied the file to the desktop, changed the default app to Pages, but it still doesn't work. All new mails with .doc still uses TextEdit as default app.
How to change this?

parkview84capt wrote:
With the Lion update, microsoft office 2004 is no longer available to open my word and excel documents. I can open them with pages and numbers when I click "open with" but how do I set pages and numbers to be my default to open these documents. Thanks
Use the info pane. command-i
always open with, set default

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