What is the best option to open .docx, pptx files in Ubuntu LTS 8.04 ?

[Derek Broughton]

Hal Burgiss wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:11:54AM -0700, Steve Grace wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 16:34 +0530, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
>> > Please help me in this matter because I need any converter or
>> > supporting open-source software that help me on this matter.
>> > May be this question has been asked so many times on the Ubuntu
>> > mailing list but I don't know how to search the old email that
>> > has been answered.
>> 
>> OpenOffice.org Writer opens .docx files.
> 
> What version? I get errors with the 2.4.1 that I believe is std issue
> on 8.04. I have never successfully opened docx, xlsx or pptx files in
>

Ditto.

-- 
derek