opening Word files

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Hey. I got my lovely iMac a week ago, after years as a writer using a PC and exchanging Word files with editors/publishers. For the first week, no problem, people sent Word files, I used Entourage and just clicked open. No problem. Then, after a week, I could not open any files. I got a message that said""uses a file type that is blocked from opening in this version..." what is going on? I have tried saving with a different name, saving as a docx, nothing works. I cannot open these attachments. Please help!
 

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How are the Word files being received and what program is being used to send them to you? Reason I ask is that if *.DOC and *.DOCX files are being sent as attachments from MS Outlook, they will not open properly.

You mentioned you were using Entourage to open the Word documents. I assume you have MS Office 2008 installed?

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Why not try iWork 09 - seems to be able to open and export in M$ as well as pdf and rtf etc.
 

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