Can Pages open Microsoft Word documents? I haven't been successful/

How old are these Word and Excel documents? Were they exported from another application other than MS Word and MS Excel? Do the filename extensions have an ‘m’ in them denoting that they contain macros?

Pages v5.0.1 will open MS Word documents created back to mid-1998, but not earlier, as I just tested this capability.

So which PAges do you have on which MacOs system?

Try this;

Click on the item once without opening it up. When it changes color (usually to a dark blue), press the Command key and the lette I (eye). That is usually called "get info".

You should see a rectangular window. Look down the window until you see "Open With". There, you can tell your computer the Application of your choosing to open the item.

Dave

You must hold down the Command key while you press the i (eye) key.

From the window you will be able to chose any application (if it is in your Applications Folder) to open the item.

Dave

Disregard my two post above!

Do you want to open the Pages document with Word for Mac?

Dave

Now that I have throughly confused the readers here, I apologize.

You can open Word and Excel documents with Pages.

Refer to my first two posts above. If you don't, I will not blame you!

I miss read your clear post several times. You asked the right question. I appologize.

Dave