How to Open Open Office Documents in Word. OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company ...

How to Read Microsoft Word From OpenOffice. Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word ...

The translator — which works with both the Linux and Windows versions of OpenOffice.org — lets users open and save Word 2007’s native documents within the open-source suite’s word ...

10 Ways to Open .Docx Word Files When a .docx file cannot be opened by regular means (as listed below), you might need a special tool to repair Word document.

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite Monday, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the ...

Linux only: Expand OpenOffice.org's document opening, saving, and conversion powers to Office 2007 documents with the Open XML Translator, a free plug-in intended for Ubuntu systems (although ...

Likewise, Microsoft Office has long been able to save documents in OpenOffice format, using a standard called Open Document Format (ODF) 1.3.

A marked-up OpenOffice contract or technical document is an order of magnitude clearer and easier to read than the same exercise in Word. The Word import and export features are strong.

And while Microsoft Office support hasn’t much improved, LibreOffice does a better job than OpenOffice.org at handling Microsoft Works, Lotus Word Pro, and WordPerfect documents.