can I open Ms-Office document on Linux?

Of course it's possible. Most linux distributions come with an "open office" suite that is capable of opening (or importing) MS Office documents. If you do not have installed by default, you'll just have to istall it from the Linux distro CDs. In the case it's not there, you can download it from here: http://www.openoffice.org

yes. open office works great. best kept secret. we have even opened and edited powerpoint files with it. only lacks outlook type component.

Goto
http://www.openoffice.org
to download verions 1.1.0
Side note,
Note everything will convert from OpenOffice to a MS Word or Excel file. But for the Folks that are looking for the basic's it works great. Table of Contents did not move from OO to MS ( under version 1.0.1, have not tried 1.1 yet )
All I use is OO under XP Pro, do not use MS-Office, and don't entend to.
Hope this helps,
James

mqpasta@uit.edu,

Opening, converting, saving, creating a Micro$oft Office document is easy and FREE if you take the time and download the latest version of OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org, so you can send them to your comrades that are still using Micro$oft Office. I use it in both the LINUX and MICRO$OFT environments.

One of the features I like in OpenOffice is the ability to create PDF (Portable Document Format) files, which comes in handy when you want to send information that you do not want changed / manipulated.

The only drawback I have found in OpenOffice is that it does not address MS ACCESS (database), but MYSQL (another program that is free and comes with RedHat Linux) is much better at handling databases than MS ACCESS, I use MYSQL in conjunction with PHP to run my website from the Garage.

Jim Deems

yes you can. if you are using Mandrake8.2 or 9.0 you can use kwrite to edit your word files.

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