Maverick will not open my word docs

i get a promt to purchase iWork08 when I try to open a word document. Seriously?

yeah, probably. darn those prompts. Luckily there is a workaround: see if you can find the document, do a "get into" on it, either right-click, or highlighting it, then pressing cloverleaf+I, then under the "open with" box, choose something else to open it with. If it's a basic document, TextEdit will work okay, but you may want to grab a copy of OpenOffice and use that for now. iWork, if you have the current version, can be upgraded no charge. However, if you have iWork 6 or 7 (iWork 6 was released in 2006, iWork 8 was released in 2007), then it'll probably prompt you to buy iWork 8 or 9+. You don't have to use it to open a word document, though. I don't know what version of iWork you have. I do know you used to get it included when you bought a Macintosh computer, but those days are gone. now it's $20 per application. go to apple.com/support, see what version of iWork you do have and if there is a "free" update for it. otherwise, the ball's in your court
John b

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