jmaletsky wrote:Pages seems to be no longer recognizing .doc files I am getting. I can't open or insert/place them. (AppleWorks doesn't recognize them either). Has a new version of Word come out that Pages can't recognize?
No, there isn't a new version of Word that Pages or AppleWorks won't recognise.
This doesn't appear to be a problem with either Pages or AppleWorks, but something to do with Mac OS X on your computer.
Can you describe exactly what happens when you try to open a Word document in AppleWorks?