MS Word format and Linux

[Transoxania]

Virtually every month I have to fix my Dad's computer running Windows 
XP.  I am fed up doing this.  I want to migrate my Dad's computer to 
something like Mandrake or any other distro that is easy for 
unexperienced computer users.  My Dad's clients send him MS Word 
documents and there is no changing that.  Open Office apparently works 
for some MS Word documents but not all.  Usually Open Office has 
problems when people use "special" formatting features of MS Word which 
some of the documents my Dad receives have.  Is there any product for 
Linux that has full compatibility with MS Word formats?  I don't care if 
I have to pay for it.  Apparently no one has gotten Office XP to work 
with Wine.

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