[ubuntu-uk] Online Office Apps

[Liam Proven]

On 21 February 2014 15:07, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have to maintain a Windows 7 partition solely to run MS Word. I work on
> all my documents in LibreOffice but my customers invariably require DOCX
> format. I need Word to double-check the formatting of the end-product as the
> LO implementation of DOCX is still not 100%.
>
> Does anybody know if the on-line MS office tools, such as those you access
> through Hotmail, SkyDrive etc, render DOCX format files exactly the same as
> the desktop applications? It would be good to save the cost of future Office
> upgrades, and I could get rid of my Windows partition.
>
> For information I don't use any very complex formatting - headers, footers,
> page numbering, fonts, bullets and tables. That's about it.


Have you tried running the Microsoft Word Viewer under WINE?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090

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