The free iText express will open and save the newer word documents. I think it keeps most formatting as well.
Danny Sent from my iPhone On 02/02/2013, at 1:31 AM, "Phil Halton" <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Pages will open word documents with the .doc extension, but the > newer .docx extension that is created by word 2010 is not handled by Pages. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy J. Meloy" <[email protected]> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:57 AM > Subject: Re: Word processing software > > >> Pages will open word documents. Key note is used for power point >> presentations. >> HTH >> TJ >> >> On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:58 AM, George Cham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ann, >>> Will pages and keynote open Microsoft word documents ? >>> >>> >>> George, >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 01/02/2013, at 6:24 PM, "Anne Robertson" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello George, >>>> >>>> Between Pages and TextEdit, you should have no trouble opening text >>>> documents. 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