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Hi, I am very new to Linux having always used Windows before. I was wondering is there anyway in Linux to at least view .xls and .doc files (word and ...
  1. 06-24-2003 #1
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    Word / Excel in Linux



    Hi,

    I am very new to Linux having always used Windows before. I was wondering is there anyway in Linux to at least view .xls and .doc files (word and excel) if not edit them.

    Thanks for any assistance

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    I believe abiword in Gnome can view .doc files while another program (can't think of the name) can view .xls files. I do know for sure that installing open office programs will take care of this problem. Opne office is a MS office clone that is free. Try it out.
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    Thanks for the speedy reply
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    OpenOffice is kind of big, but if you want a MS Office clone, then that's the one; it provides almost any kind of functionality that you'd have in MS Office.
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