Opening Word Files in pages

Hi,
Sorry if this has been asked before......
I recently converted from PC to iMac and bought myself a copy of Pages as part of iWork which (for me) is much nicer than MS word. One question though, is there any rules about what you can and can't open in terms of PC created word .doc files? I did a bit of experimenting and found that files on a USB memory stick open fine but when I look at my old PC's files across the network I get a message saying unable to open. Do files need to be local i.e I need to transfer to my HD? Is there a setting I need to change etc.?
Kind regards,
Phil.

i've had no problems opening word docs from any version including .docx in pages. however you can't save them in .docx format.
i have also no experienced the problem you have with network files. i can open files on a network share in pages (be they word docs or pages documents) without issue.
could it be someone was editing the word doc you tried to open or you opened the temp file created by doc for autosaving? i've noticed the new version of word on the pc does not do a good job of cleaning those temp files up and have tried opening a few of them myself.

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