Making Pages the Default

Is it possible to have Pages '09 serve as the default application to open documents? Whenever I receive a word document from someone and try to open it, it opens it in TextEdit. I would prefer that it opened it in Pages so that I could avoid the step of having to copy and paste into a Pages template. What am I missing?

Ric,
Thanks for the advice. As soon as you mentioned it, it all came back to me. However, my initial thinking was that you could set it as a preference from either Pages or TextEdit preferences. Kind of like you do in Safari where you can set your web browser to be the default web browser, whether you want Safari, Firefox, Opera or whatever. When that option didn't present itself, I came here. Thanks for your answer. It solved the problem. As an aside, I was under the impression that MS Word users would be able to open attachments created in Pages. I know that you can open MS word docs in pages, but when I tried to send a file I created in pages to someone who uses a PC, he couldn't open it. Any insights?
Thanks again.

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