Is Microsoft Office compatible with Linux?

5 Comments

1. Bill says:

   28. February 2011 at 19:37

   Hello;

   I like Ubuntu Linux — and I am happy to give advice to you … For the most part you are right Open Office will read and write to MS Office suite files. You can copy a file (MS Word, MS PowerPoint or MS Excel) to a flash drive and work on it with Open Office with virtually no problems — also you can take Open Office documents and save them in MS Office formats. I am sure that the other people who post will give you same answers.

   Sometimes Open Office has the better application —

   If it were your machine I would say go to Linux and be happy — But if isn’t your machine! Your mother is the one who decides what Operating System and applications she wants. I would suggest that you offer to make her system a dual boot system installing Ubuntu with the GRUB loader will give you the best of both worlds. She gets the safety of MS Windows — you get to use Open Office. As long as your hard drive has capacity it is a good compromise.

   On Last thing you should consider — are all the components of your system compatible with Linux … sometimes printer drivers are not available.

   Best of luck,

   Bill
2. ewingo401 says:

   28. February 2011 at 19:37

   Yes. OpenOffice can open any MS Office file format. It can also save your documents or spreedsheets in MS Office format.
3. Jessica Queller says:

   28. February 2011 at 19:37

   OpenOffice can save files in the .doc, .ppt, and .xls formats, and it’s about 99% compatible with Microsoft Office. You may experience some minor formatting issues in complex documents, but you will certainly be able to work on projects in both OpenOffice and MS Office.