Iwork-Pages totally changes original doc file. Why?

Hi,
Today morning I download .doc extension file from my email, it asked to open in iWork-pages. Opening it so changed the format by merging cells and changed original document style. Can anybody suggest me a better alternative, so I can edit without changing original format?

You can try Docs2Go, Office2, Goodreader and probably others.

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