Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,
>  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...
A few years ago I worked as editor-at-large for a computer magazine. 
Authors, editors and revisors worked from different locations, sharing 
files by e-mail. It was not unusual the same content going through 
changes by six or more different pepole.

 From time to time, word doc and docx files become garbled, after a few 
interations were different people changed the text using different ms 
office versions. Nobody could continue to work without signifficant 
effort retyíng and reformatting content from previous interactions. :-(

The solution: they forwarded the file to me -- the only one using 
OpenOffice, by the way under Fedora --- and I could read the file 
without garbage, or with little garbage and little formatting 
disruption. I fixed a few lines (if needed) and saved the file again as 
doc or docx so the rest of the team could continue. :-)


[]s, Fernando Lozano