Can Open Office Org open Microsoft word documents?

[mariner2]

If it can I cannot find out how. I get a list of programs to try and open it with but none of them work?

[ChuckFickens]

Yes it can, if you've got open office installed you should be able to right click on any word document and select open with > open office.org writer.

Or just run open office writer and goto file > open and select the word file,

[mariner2]

I tried that, but I get a filter list of loads of programs, none of which work. Well, I tried all the likely ones.

[ChuckFickens]

Sounds like open office isn't installed properly then, try downloading it and installing it again.

[MarkRae]

Does the Word document have a .docx extension? If so, depending on how old your copy of OpenOffice is, you may need to download and install an additional converter...