related:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5153862

I think that this where the .docx stuff came from. (I also seem to recall that this move was basically forced-upon Microsoft by governments who, among other things, have to maintain "national archives.") These formats consist of zip-compressed XML files which can be shown to conform to a standard schema, and can be validated against them.

Of course, there will still be incompatibilities. But I know that there are projects underway which are translating millons of document-files into these formats which, one will hope, do have more of a chance at a future.

WordPerfect is still around and still the best choice for heavy duty word processing,

http://www.corel.com/corel/category....48&storeKey=us

then click on "Office Suites."

I still use OpenOffice, which I prefer. Since the Windows version of that gets more downloads than the Linux version, the compatibility may be better. I used to get a monthly Microsoft Office file, but so many people complained that it's now distributed as rtf.

Does it support .docx ? Because it didn't the last time I used it, which was before Gooo and Libreoffice appeared.

According to the help file it does, but only for import, not export. Of course, I haven't got the latest version, using CentOS.

You could also use the web-based versions of MS Office.