reading word files in works

But every version of Works that I've ever seen has a copy of Word in it.

If you open Word and then select the Open menu and on the bottom of the Open Window is a drop down list that will allow you to chose different formats to the native one of the version that you are using. There should be a setting there that will allow you to import to the format recognised by that version of Word but it may stay converted when you save any changes and not be readable in the older format if that's important. If it is you'll have to chose the Save As Option and change the format that you save the document in just like you changed the format to read it.

Col