Ms Office Files cannot be opened in iPad / iPhone

Hello to all. I am having some problems with my iPad/iPhone and Office documents. Some documents (word /excel/powerpoint) either created by myself in my iMac with Office for Mac or sent to me and created in MS Office, cannot be viewed in iPhone/iPad mail client and further cannot be opened in pages/numbers/keynote and Dataviz’s DocsToGo; they always refer as invalid type of file or something alike. Those documents are not password protected and I can view and edit-them fine in my iMac. It is annoying since not all files behave in such a way so I no longer can be sure if the file I send myself from my iMac and/or get from third parties would open or not in my I-devices. I already made a full restore to both of them and situation persist. I would very much appreciate your input and comments on this matter. Thanks

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