[ubuntu-uk] Online Office Apps

[J Fernyhough]

On 21 February 2014 15:11, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Kingsoft Office alpha works pretty well too.