Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee. The matter looks not to be a simple one, so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation.
But, Deedee, after I read you say: >I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on >Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer (OO). I now do all MSWord >stuff using OO (I get it in MSWord, open the file in OO, do >whatever needs to be done, and convert it back to MSWord). No one >has noticed the difference. , I did other trials with OpenOffice.org Writer and found out that, if the MSWord document is edited in a very 'clean' way, i.e. respecting all the tabs and the layout settings, without using the space bar to move text and so on, OO Writer manages to properly read it. In my experience the results had not been satisfying: I tried opening a certain MSWord document with OOWriter and some stuff that was on the right end of the page in MSWord found itself spread out around the middle of the page in OOWriter: the same with abiword. Maybe, as you say, something like that sometimes happens with MSWord itself, but you see that is not good a start, it wouldn't induce to use OO with MSWord documents. However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files, especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses. And apart from that, I don't much like the idea of having an MSWindows-like system inside my Linux box! I'll be going on experimenting OO Writer, thanks indeed, Rodolfo
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