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 <b...@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 > > > -- > Bill Horne > I'm looking for a job! All leads appreciated! > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss