Opening files in Word and Excel - blank or nothing at all

Hi all,
I am a newbie to Mac (going on my third week) and am having problems with MS Office documents and spreadsheets. Most of the time opening a .doc from Finder will result in a "cloud" but Word does not open. The same with Excel. Sometimes Word opens in a blank document, but mostly nothing at all. Sometimes it works out just fine. I haven't been able to figure it out.
If I open the same document from Word (File-Open), then it always works just fine. The same happens with email documents, the file downloads but nothing else happens.
Any ideas where the problem might be?

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
Until you resolve this issue, and I would point out that MS Office has never really played well with Leopard, you might consider using OpenOffice and/or NeoOffice, both of which are 99.99% MS Office compatible, they have no Leopard issues and they are both free.
Once I began using them I never looked back at MS Office, not even on my PCs.

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