Word:Mac vs Pages

I recently bought my first Apple. Just installed Word for Mac and see that it has designated itself as the "default" word processing program over Pages. How do I set Pages as the default?

Select a document you want to open in Pages in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, choose Pages from the Open With section, click on Change All, and confirm your action.
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