Save unchanged documents?

Hi,
when I open an MSOffice document with Pages (or Keynote), and I close it without ANY change... why does the program always ask me if I want to save the document?
I am a new MAC user, so I have tons of Word and Powerpoint documents!
I have already change the default application to pages (from “Word” to “Pages”), but the program always ask me for the “save” when I close it without changes!
can anyone explain me if there’s something to do about that?
thanks

Pedro,
When you open a Word document in Pages (or a PowerPoint doc in Keynote), the document is still in its original format -- it's still a Word doc. Pages' default action is to save the document as a Pages document, not a Word document. Changing the default application only tells Pages to open the document, not save it. Pages (rightfully) assumes that any Word doc you open in Pages is a doc you want to save in Pages format. So it's behaving normally by asking you to save it as a Pages document.
Does this make sense?

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