Can pendrives & Word files work with Ubuntu Linux OS?
Friday, September 10th, 2010 at
16:24
I want to buy an Acer emachine E725, which comes with preloaded Ubuntu Linux Operating system. My office PC has Windows XP. I want to take parts of office works to home and take back finished works to office via USB pen drive. I heard pen drives are only compatible with windows 98 and later versions. Can a word document be opened in open office and vice versa ?
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Yes, absolutely.
Ubuntu Linux will have Open Office, and it will read Word files.
And another option would be to install Open Office on your computer at work-its free.
I have both at home. I use a usb drive with Word/Open Office files and move them back and forth all the time.
Yes, for years now.
For best results be sure the pen drive is formatted as fat32. Then both xp and linux will have no problem reading and writing to it. Also make sure that openoffice saves any word documents in the proper format (.doc).