MS Word to Pages Conversion Issues

Hello, I recently added the MS Office software (PowerPoint, Word, etc), and I'm having issues with converting back from MS Word to Pages. The document will convert from Word to Pages, but when I open it in Pages the font has changed and there are weird symbols in place of words. I actually prefer using Pages to write and edit my documents....
Please help! Thank you!

Yes, but the issue is that as long as I have Word on my computer, the documents that were once Pages documents are now in Word. Even when I reset the 'default' back to Pages, what the documents were orginally created in, the documents don't properly convert back to Pages. So, I'm wondering if I remove/uninstall MS Word all together if that will look after the problem...

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This is starting to drive me nuts - whenever I type the word "march" Pages automatically capitalizes it to "March". Is there any way to stop it from capitalizing this word without turning off auto capitalizing?
I realise it may sound trivial but I am using this word a fair bit and it just takes up time having to constantly go back and correct it, then I have to be careful not to change the sentence or it auto-corrects back again.
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(K_Gal: This primarily addresses RHPC's issue, but does include some comments regarding yours)
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RHPC:
Yours is a different issue than that described in the initial post in this thread.
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