Microsoft Word 2008 and Snow Leopard

I updated word to 12.2.3? whatever the latest version is. Word cannot open some docx files I created in Word (windows version 2007). Is opens alot of other documents ok, but randomly some files it just locks up and freezes. I have to "ignore or report".
I was doing some search on A.D. here and is it just a font issue? MS didn't have anything in the KB so just needed to post my question here.
Thanks

Hi BB623;
There is always the solution I used to solve my dissatisfaction with the lack of support from Microsloth which was to simply get rid of everything that they produce on my Macs. There are other solutions available. I use iWorks which does everything I need. There are also NeoOffice and OpenOffice which other have found to be useful.
Allan
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