Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

linuxnutster at videotron.ca linuxnutster at videotron.ca
Fri Sep 6 12:38:09 UTC 2013


On 09/06/2013 08:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:09:57 -0400
> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>
>> I need to be able to collaborate writing documents with colleagues who
>> use MS Office.
>
> Well, judging from the office docs we get at work, MS Office
> isn't compatible with MS Office. No one ever gets updates
> and whatever version of office they happen to have hangs around
> for years, and no two versions seem to produce docs that
> actually look the same or sometimes they can't read them
> at all.
>
  That is usually solved in all versions prior to office 2007 by 
installing the office 2007 compatibility pack. I even tried it in office 
2000 and it read docx perfectly, but who knows...


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