Read microsoft office documents in Linux

Default of distros of linux are open source offices like libreoffice, koffice, abioffice ... but all of them reading doc, docx, xls, xlsx ... files are not very well. Today, I will present some solutions better.


Kingsoft Office

Home page: http://wps-community.org/ or http://www.kingsoftstore.com

It is the office productivity suite having free and pro versions, but with only free version, I can read ms office formats much better than libreoffice (what I am using). Besides, It is small, can download for offline install, run fast and user interface very like ms office, you can use without any difficulty.


Skydriver

Skydriver is an free store service of microsoft office with 7gb online. And it support read ms office formats perfectly. However, when you edit documents, it has many limit when compare with MS office offline in window.


OthersTo get full of power of ms office, you can do other solutions like:

• Install MS office in window in virtual machine (vmware, virtualbox ..)
• Install MS office via crossover (wine). Crossover is shareware but support install MS office in linux good and easy.