New to Pages - Read .rtf documents?

Hello everyone,
I'm new to Pages  (just got my new iMac with Yosemite), and have a question regarding importing some (not all) documents saved with WORD as .doc or .docx -- when I open the documents in Textedit, I can see all sorts of formatting information, but Pages will not recognize them ("unable to import Rich Text Format).
How can I convert these documents into a format that will be accepted by Pages?
When I try to save these documents via Textedit and hold 'Option' and attempt to 'Save as...' I can't find any option to change the format.
Thanks in advance,
Bill

Normal Word documents (.doc, .docx) are binary data, and do not have this RTF preamble at the beginning of the document. TextEdit will only show RTF syntax in RTF files — if instructed to do so in its preferences. Uncheck the following:
I can rename a proper RTF document and give it a .doc/.docx extension. It does not become a Word document, but rather remains, and is identified by applications as an RTF document. I can manually prepend your RTF preamble to the front of a normal Word document, and it will be recognized as RTF, not as a Word document. You can open this invalid document in TextEdit and the preamble is visible, along with mostly distorted Word content.
Whether valid or mangled documents, Pages v5 will not open any recognizable RTF content.

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