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word document into open office

My friend has had an email sent with a microsoft word document attachment he needs to work on, he only has wordpad and openoffice, how can he open the document using openoffice?
I am sure I have seen it on here before but could not find it on the search
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  • bat999
    bat999 Posts: 1,951 Forumite
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    Hi
    He has to download the attachment onto his computer.
    Then open the OpenOffice word processor.
    Then just File > Open
    to open the file.
    :cool:
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