MS word for Mac: I have documents from an out dated version of Word on my computer.

My update to Yosemite went pretty well.  I have a bunch of documents that were made in MS Word.  With the update I can no longer use MS Word anymore.  I'm willing to buy Office for mac but I was wondering if there is any other (cheaper but not too technical) way to gain access to my documents.
Thanks for any help or input!

You will be able to open them in Pages, and they will be converted to Pages documents.
You can export them back to Office format, if you need to.
Not everything you can do in Word is supported in Pages. The resulting converted documents may not look exactly the same.

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