Pages rounding up numbers in a .doc file to 2 decimal places

Hello, I have a problem, with Pages (3.4) on OS 10.7.5...
When I go to open a .Doc file, Pages seems to round up some numbers to 2 decimal places. I did find another thread which dealt with this problem inside of Tables, but I am not using tables in this document.... another problem is that the new rounded up number is not editable in Pages once the document is open. e.g.
In word/open office I see the figure (which is in fact a series of dates - i did not write this document btw)
12.12.24.1.13
in Pages is only see
.13
and this .13 is totaly un-editable and unselectable.
Can you help ?

Got it!
I tried opening it in TextEdit but the funky dates were omitted from the page. Then I opened it in LibreOffice and it looked OK. The problematic dates seemed created by a special Word function. The behaving dates were manually written.
I selected all content of the document in LibreOffice and pasted into a Pages document and all dates came out as they should.

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