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Eric Johnson
Asked: 2011-03-31 06:59:23 +0800 CST

What do you use to edit Microsoft Word documents (docx)?

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What alternatives exist for editing Microsoft Word documents (docx)?

I know about OpenOffice and Google docs. What else is out there?

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  1. Best Answer

    LibreOffice is the replacement for OpenOffice and does the same job.

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  2. Abiword

    Which is a part of gnome-office also supports docx format.

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  3. I can certify you that LibreOffice opens correctly Office 2007 Documents (docx) AND saves them correctly. I have tested till now a little over 50 documents which include tables, pictures, a lot of different margins, paragraphs, etc..

    They open, read and save correctly. Tested with LibreOffice 3.3.2 and OpenOffice 3.3.0. With OpenOffice you will have a problem that text will move up or down and maybe even change the way they look. But in LibreOffice you will not.

    This is a headache i can say goodbye at least for now.

    Use the following to install the latest LibreOffice:

    NOTE - When you add the PPA of LibreOffice the option to remove OpenOffice will appear. I recommend you remove it since, trust me, it will be far better.

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  4. If you want to guarantee perfect compatibility with the docx format you could always run Office 2007 under Wine. Not the best for the open source ethos but it does work well if you already have a copy of office.

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  5. IBM's Lotus Symphony is a great word processor with full .docx support. It's proprietary, however.

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  6. Sites like linux alternatives or linux appfinder (my favorite) list applications that do similar stuff. Linux appfinder gives these results for Microsoft Word alternatives under Linux.

    Other than looking there, I would say ZOHO Docs is very nice.

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  7. Use these office suites:

    K Office - http://www.koffice.org/

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  8. I've always used Microsoft Office 2007 on Wine. It works perfectly!

    Right now, LibreOffice is not mature enough to be considered a replacement to Office 2007 IMO

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  9. You can also use Softmaker Office. It is not for free, but from time to time they have a special where you can get it for free.

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  10. I am throwing my hat into the LibreOffice ring also. So far it has worked at least as well as OpenOffice for me, and since it will be replacing OpenOffice in the next release of Ubuntu, it should be well-supported at least in Ubuntuland.

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