install microsoft software to linux system?

Question

i want to ask
my brother use vista
i use good one ubuntu

my brother want give me some essay
my brother send as microsoft word
can i use abi word. k word and open office to open it
if cant
can i install microsoft word in linux

Answer 1

1. Yes, OpenOffice should be compatible with most Microsoft Office documents.

2. Older versions of Microsoft word can be installed under Wine. Wine should be available through your package manager.

Answer 2

Openoffice will open most Word documents...just in case you want to install Microsoft Office Suite...check out Codeweavers Check out www.codeweavers.com/products/

Answer 3

Microsoft word documents are compatible with openoffice

Answer 4

if ur unable to open a word document in openoffice its most probably a docx format. thats the new office xml format. ul have to ask ur brother to save the file with a doc extension and send it to u.. hope it helps/..

Answer 5

There is packages you can double click to install, there is some you have to compile, and others you can just use synaptic or some other software manager... ./configure make make install Also have to have the permissions set correctly, and for the idiot who first posted--there are equally dumb questions asked for Windows ("what's an exe?!?!").

Answer 6

it is two different os you cant install microsoft products on linux two different os although you can down load other word processing software which is open source as long as the extension is .doc prob convert to wordpad as text then open with your wrd processor try this

Answer 7

yes you can open that, but some certain format, fonts from microsoft doesn't support the other word application you said.

Answer 8

yes, i would sugest dual booting. where you have both, look it up cause i dont fully understand how to do it yet.