MS Word format and Linux

[James Knott]

Transoxania wrote:
> 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.

I use Win4Lin, to run a copy of Windows 98 under Linux.  With this setup 
I can run the vast majority of Windows apps.  There is also VMware, 
which IIRC can run XP.  Perhaps one of those may be suitable.
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