Increasingly cannot open .doc files in Pages

Am a big pages user and have all .doc files auto set to open in Pages.
But since moving over to my new MB Air I find I can't open a lot of .doc files.
Not sure if its something I tweaked previously on my old Air of if there are just changes that Word has made that Pages isn't dealing well with.
I'm running Pages 4.0.4
Anyone got any ideas?

Maybe the documents are created with the late Word version in a format which is not recognized by Pages '09 which was introduced in january 2009.
Maybe the memory available is short or the available space available on the HD is short too.
iWork application use Virtual memory which is in fact HD space.
As the SSD delivered with the new macBook Air are small, I'm afraid that this is the true explanation.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 3 décembre 2010 11:21:18

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