On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: > >>I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the > >>windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install > >>any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from > > > > You need to specify the version. Office XP files use a proprietary > > format that still hasn't been reverse engineered by OS developers, I > > think. Any previous version of Office should be trivial for OpenOffice, > > KOffice, as well as a number of other replacements. > > AFAIK, OpenOffice will read Word XP files.
My info may be dated. I am still on version 1.02 of Open Office and the last time I did some research, there were still some compatibility problems with some XP file formats. Version 1.1 is supposed to be fully compatible according to the website, but I am not running that version. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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