Setting Pages as Main Word Processsor

I have iWork and Microsoft Office installed on my MacBook Pro. I've been having troubles with formatting in Word, but I don't want to delete Office just yet. Is there a way I can make Pages my default word processor? I know the option usually pops up when you first open the program, but that didn't happen. I'm not sure if the fact that Word was used previously has any impact on that. Can anyone tell me how to set Pages as default?
Thank you in advance.

Find a .doc document on your hard drive. Select it and open the information window ( CMD + i ) then you can set "Open with" to "Pages". After doing so, hit "Change all...", that will always open documents with .doc extention in Pages. Maybe you have to do it with an .docx document too.

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