[Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

The other option is to run Office under Wine or CrossOver. (The latter
is a commercially supported non-free offshoot of Wine.) I haven't
tried it but it's supposed to work reasonably well, because that's one
of the software packages that they concentrate on supporting.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 10:05 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine.
>> I
>> need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
>>
>> So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No
>> luck.
>>
>> What do I do? How do I get it installed?
>>
>> I know, it pains me! But I don't see a way around it. All suggestions
>> gratefully received!
>>
>> --Nancy
>>
> Nancy,
>
> The few times that the issue came up while I was working in a mixed
> Windows/Linux shop, I sent Libre Office docs formatted as html, and they
> worked fine.
>
> HTH. FWIW.
>
> Bill Horne
>
>
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