Opening '.doc' files created by Appleworks

Hi,I couldn't find any discussion of this so am posting a question.
Pages 2.0 opens all our normal Appleworks word processor (cwk?) files OK, and also opens "real" ".doc" files created by Word (from others, we don't have Word).
Pages won't open Word type ".doc" files saved from Appleworks, and gives a message that it is an incorrect file type. If I use "get info" to remove the .doc extension from the name, Pages will open the renamed file. So pages appears to be okay opening Appleworks saved .doc files only if I remove the .doc from the name.
Kind of hard to do with several hundred files. Any suggestions?
G42x800, G4Cube, Etc. Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I don't know what the problem is exactly. When I save a document as Word (6 or 98) in AW, no .doc extension is added to the file name. But here is a solution to remove the extension, if that helps:
Create a workflow in Automator. I use Automator on a german OS, I have tried to translate the commands, but you might have to search for the corresponding actions with a similar name.
- Add the "Get Folder Content" action
- Add the "Rename" Finder action
- Select "Replace text" and replace ".doc" with nothing or with "AW doc"
Then save the action as a folder plugin and attach it to a "Convert AW docs" folder.
Any file dropped into the folder will be renamed according to your rules.

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