Windows .Doc files in OS X

I've been getting a lot of windoes Word file with a .doc extension but I've not found a program to read and edit them in. What have I missed?
Can someone help?
Willard

Microsoft Word for Mac will open them. The free Open Office suite will open most of them. As will Apple's Appleworks.

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