Word document does not open in Pages

It was my understanding that Pages is supposed to be able to open Microsoft Word documents. When my PC friends send me Word documents, they appear as "winmail.dat" in Mail and I cannot open them with either Pages or the Mac version of Microsoft Word. Has anyone else experienced this problem and is there a solution or fix?
Thanks,
Allan

Pages does open Word documents, but their suffix is always .doc. In other words, your friends are not sending you Word documents. You can try to convert these .dat documents into .doc, but I don't know what .dat is, so if it does not convert easily, you may need help from someone else. Try right-clicking on the document and choose Get Info to see if you can change the suffix or find out what program the document was made in.
It appears that these files are generated by Outlook, and the problem should be solved at the sender's end. Ask your friends to choose plain text or Word format for mail attachments, so they can be read by people who don't use Outlook to download their mail.
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