Opening multiple files with a single click?

I have searched this topic here and online elsewhere, but haven't gotten an answer.
I teach English, and I download multiple student documents to grade. I want to just open all of them and go through one at a time quickly... like a stack of papers on my desk.
I swear to goodness that I used to be able to select a folder full o' files and bam... they would all open in whatever app they were intended to open in. However, now I'm having trouble with this.
I have a series of items... some are .doc some are .docx and some are .txt
When I select all of them, only one .docx opens (and it opens in Pages because I have trained it to do this.)
If I select all the .txts they all open in textedit like they should. But I can't get the stupid MS Word docs to do the same. I am not sure whether to blame Apple yet.
I have tried Open With... Word, Pages, etc. but only one document opens at a time. What am I missing? I just did a perm repair and software update... nothing new under the sun.
Any ides? Please? Thanks!

There are a few ways you can open them:
1) Select all of the files and under the File menu select "Open"
2) Select all of the files and use the shortcut for open, which is command-O
3) Select all of the files and drag them to the dock icon of the app you want to open them with
You need to do these actions with the files selected and not the folder that they are in. To quickly select all items in a folder, click one of them and hit command-A (shortcut for "select all")

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