Can I read and write MS documents from colleagues and share them with colleages?
A. Yes. Both OpenOffice, and KOffice (both office suites present on Linux Distributions) read and write .doc, .ppt, and .xls files. In addition, GNUmeric is a very nice spreadsheet. I’ll be honest, however. The rendering of these documents is pretty good, but far from perfect, especially with complex formatting. OpenOffice is better than all the rest, but it has it’s issues sometimes. And there is no program that I know of that will open Access files.
