Is Pages a good 'reader' app for Word documents ?

In doing a few searches in this forum on the subject I find some conflicting reports ( what a surprise ) so I am compelled to ask :
How good a job does Pages do in reading Word documents particularly Word documments from PCs?
Most of our word proc needs are met very well by Appleworks but it does a very poor job of retaining the formating of tables & such. I don't need a copy of MS Word for everyone in the shop if I can just find a way to read Word docs reliably.
Thanks for any opinions
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I think Pages makes an excellent "reader" for Word. Even though I do have Office 2004, I rarely open it. Pages is my first choice to open a Word file, including all of those PC ones I get from work. You may get warnings that certain fonts are missing, but Pages will replace them with a close relative that you have. The only other warning I get is that page borders aren't supported. I've even checked the same Word documents in Word on both the Mac & PC & don't see what is missing.

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