Open WORD docs question....

I have iWorks 09 and Microsoft Office 2004 on my MacBook. When someone emails me a Word Doc and I open it, the doc opens in Pages, not Word. Yet when I receive an Excel or Powerpoint, these open in the original format. What do I need to do to have Word docs open with Word and not Pages?
Thank you,
tribs

Brie
With inexperienced users, even some experienced users, you should never give incomplete instructions.
That is why, when I can, I give full starting point and paths of the necessary steps.
You may know where something is but not everyone else does.
This is the bane of most instructional books. The worst are those dealing with Adobe's products which suffer enormously from palletitis and features stashed willy nilly throughout a badly thought through interface.
Pages and OSX have some fairly key functions stashed out of sight and you do need to give the full path to access them.
Peter

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