Can a linux system product save documents that can be read by Microsoft computer?
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at
03:04
I am looking to buy a Acer Aspire One with Linux to use as a mobile computer and my home system is a PC with microsoft. Will i be able to save word doc files to use on my home computer????
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Absolutely. Just use OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/ ) on your Linux machine. You can set OpenOffice to save in MS Office format by default, follow these steps:
1. Launch any OpenOffice.org application such as OpenOffice Writer.
2. Click on Tools and then Options.
3. Expand the Load/Save section in the left pane by clicking the + (plus sign).
4. Click on General under the Load/Save section.
5. In the area labeled as “Default file format” near the bottom of the dialog window, select the type of document you want, for example, Text Document for Writer files, in the Document Type drop-down list.
6. To the right dropdown list labeled as “Always save as”, change or select the format as “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP”.
7. Repeat the above 2 steps for other documents such as spreadsheets or presentations that you want to save in Microsoft Office file format, and select the appropriate default save as format for them.
8. Click OK to save the settings.
9. From now on, whenever you want to save a document, the default format will be .doc, .xls or .ppt and other Microsoft Office file formats and extensions.
You will be able to use the OpenOffice suite, which is free, and can save files in word format.
Microsoft Office will not run on Linux. It is designed to run on Windows OS or Mac OS.
Yes you can use OpenOffice suite : http://www.openoffice.org/
Open Office is 100% cross compatible with MS Office.
I have been using OpenOffice almost exclusively for about 4 years. I have shared doc, xls and ppt files with colleagues who only use M$ Office.
There was one time when I needed to use office, rather than openoffice for some obscure problem I was having. And there was one time when my colleagues could not open a word file that they had produced – they could not open it with any of their computers, including the machine that had been used to create the file. I opened it easily with openoffice, and I saved it back as a doc file that they were able to open. My last two machines have not even had M$ office installed, I went directly with Openoffice.
Openoffice is a very realistic alternative to M$’s office suite. And I use it under both M$ windoze and Linux.