Open Office saving documents to Pages

Open Office saving my documents (saved as Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP) in the program Pages. Meaning, documents with .doc are being saved to Pages instead of Open Office, so when I go to open the document, it opens in Pages instead of Open Office.

The problem isn't that they are being saved to Pages. The problem is that Pages is set as the default program to open them. You can change that by doing the following:
1. In Finder, find and select (highlight) a .doc file.
2. Click the "Action" button in the bar at the top of the Finder window and then click "Get Info"
3. The Info window has a section titled "Open with" -- change it to Open Office and then click Change all.

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Unless they were Word documents, Pages has done nothing really, but it is updating date information in the file.
It is annoying but just ignore it and don't save.
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Retina display?
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Hi Jan,
Copied text (or other copied material) is on the Clipboard, but only until you copy something else or log out of your account. If you act before doing another copy, you can paste the copied material back into the document. If you don't act right away, you may still have a path back.
One of the most useful keystroke combinations on the Mac is the "Oops! key," as a friend of mine once named it. That's command-Z, also known as "Undo". In some applications it will let you undo only a single step, but in others, including Pages, you can do repeated undos, so it's not quite so essential that you act immediately on making an error. Undo, done via the Oops! key, or via the Edit menu takes you back one change at a time. You can't skip any steps, so to get back to the state before the accidental deletion, you'll have to undo any work you've done since then. The memory of what to Undo disappears when you close the document or quit the application.
At that point you're at the mercy of your backup plan. If you've had Time Machine running, you'll be able to enter Time Machine and go back to an earlier, saved version of the file.
All these are in addition to the steps Ian suggested above.
Regards,
Barry
PS: Best piece of advice I can give a new Pages user (beyond Backup early and often) is to download and read through the first few chapters of the Pages '09 User Guide, available through the Help menu in Pages '09. Mostly pretty easy reading, and will get you through the basics without much trouble.
B

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THis is safe for Mac's? Sorry, I have just never heard of this site before.
And there are literally tens of thousands of sites of which I've not heard, too. Not this one.
It's legit. There are lots of links in Apple Support Communities to the LibreOffice web site, as well as others that are legitimate open-source developers of options to buying MS Office, such as NeoOffice and OpenOffice. I have Open Office installed on one of my older Macs that can't run Office 2011 and it is rock-solid.
I've been here too long to start posting bogus urls now.

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Hi,
In regarding of the issue, I need more information:
Which Office and operation system do you use?
Does the other Office suits encounter the issue?
Does the issue occur in some special documents or every documents (even a new blank Word document)?
Do you get some error message? Please upload some images about it if you can.
Let's try some methods, check if they are helpful:
a) Delete the Word Data registry subkey.
1.Exit all Office programs.
2.In Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. (If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Search.) Type regedit in the search box, tap
or click Apps, and then tap or click Run.
Or, in Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
3.Locate the following registry subkey, as appropriate for the version of Word that you are running:
Word 2013
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Data
Word 2010
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Data
Word 2007
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
Word 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Data
4.Click Data, and then click Export on the File menu.
5.Name the file Wddata.reg, and then save the file to the desktop.
6.On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click Yes.
7.Exit Registry Editor.
8.Start Word.
b) Start Word in
safe mode, if it works fine, the issue may be caused by the add-ins, please try to check them one by one.
c) Repair Office.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/repair-office-programs-HA010357402.aspx
For more detail information, please refer to the following link:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541/en-us
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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Don't buy a M…soft product, use the free openOffice or the free neoOffice.
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Alright...I have tried to search the forum to see if someone is having the same problem but I haven't seen any. I cannot open a word document in pages. at all. Just says "The document “filename.doc” couldn’t be opened."
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You have 2 versions of Pages on your Mac.
Pages 5.2 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.2 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Older versions of Pages 5 can not open files from later versions of Pages 5.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Anything that is saved to iCloud and opened in a newer version of Pages is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed almost 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
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