Several years ago, when I upgraded from MacOS 10.6.8 to 10.10, my MS Word 2000 had to be replaced with Word 2011, and a lot of .doc files created with an even earlier version ceased to be recognizable. Is any version of LO Writer capable of opening such old files? Unfortunately, I don’t know what that older version of Mac Word was.
I have a bunch of .doc files dating back to MacOS Classic. I can open them in LO Writer 6.4.7.2 but they need to be reworked a lot. The first issue is they used the MacRoman 8-bit character set while all present-day computers use Unicode.
Formatting must also be reviewed because the specifications changed a lot over this time span.
But the good thing is text need not to be retyped, despite the amount of work to get the document into an acceptable state.
In your case MacOS X 10.6.8 is not that old (compared to my files). This should spare you the non-Unicode character set issue.
Anyway, the definitive answer is “make a try”.
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Thanks very much. LibreOffice does seem to do the trick, now that I’ve got past the endlessly-stuck-in-verification problem apparently experienced by a lot of people. The answer to THAT was found at
advising people to use the following command in the Terminal window to fix a faulty attribute:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreOffice.app