will open office (writer) open ms office ( word) documents

myself321

hi there

will openoffice writer open microsoft office word 2003, 2007 documents, so they can be edited?. many thanks

newlywed

Yes it will. And you can also do Save As in Open office and save it as a word doc so that other people can open it easily

trcooke

Yes it will and you can save them in Microsoft format once you've finished editing also.

Bob63

Office 2003 no problem. Office 2007 more problematic. For the current 2.x versions of OpenOffice you will need to install a translator program. For 3.0, which is currently in late beta, you will be able to open the Office 2007 documents without any additional software.