Take the 2-minute tour ×  Microsoft Office uses closed document
standards, and anyone who wants to read/write compatible files
with a different program has to reverse engineer the formats.
This process is often imperfect.  However, many people in school
or business regularly have to send/receive documents in Office
formats. For example, I have had to submit resumes in Word
format, and of course I wanted them to look perfect.  For an
Ubuntu user, what program or web application creates the most MS
Office-compatible documents?  share|improve this question  1
Answer 1  up vote 13 down vote accepted  I think as far as
support for the legacy binary MS Office formats go,
OpenOffice.org is your best bet. Support for creating those
files is usually much better than for reading, so most
compatibility issues you will encounter are usually on the "read
a file created with MS Office" side, instead of "read a file in
MS Office which was created by OpenOffice". Usually
implementations aren't dead wrong but rather incomplet