May I open word documents on pages?

I would like to know if i can open and format Word windows documents on pages?

EIther Pages ’09 v4.n or the latest Pages v5.0.1 can open MS Word documents and templates. Pages is not an MS Word clone, and there may be functionality that you apply to the document in Pages, that may not accurately export back out to MS Word document formats.
The older version of Pages could export to .doc format. The latest version can export to .doc and docx formats. There is .rtf support in the older Pages, but not in the latest, though TextEdit can open and export all of these formats.
If you need precise, round-trip, MS Word compatibility, then I would recommend using Office for Mac 2011.

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