Downloading a word.doc to my MacBook
I was wondering if anyone knew why my word documents stopped downloading as word documents but now they automatically transfer over to pages and download to my files as pages. When I was searching up why it did this everyone told me to highlight a doc in my files, click the file tab on the top left, then hit "get info", and when the pages app drop down appears click the "open with" option and select MS word/ word documents. But when I tried doing that I have no word doc option It only has the option pages as a default option and the text edit app as an option. Is this because I don't have MS word app on my computer, just google docs. I didn't know if it was another mess up in my settings or because of an apple update, but if anyone could help me save a word doc as an word doc without transfer as a page in my files I would appreciate it.
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.1