Open docx format in Ubuntu Linux!

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A quick web search produced this page from mypapit. To make the magic work, you simply download this file to your desktop. And follow these steps:

1. Double-click the odf_filter.tar.bz2 on your desktop, then click Extract.
2. This will place the files in a folder titled “files” on your desktop.
3. Click Applications, then Accessories, then Terminal.
4. In the terminal, type the following commands:
5. cd Desktop/
6. cd files/
7. sudo cp OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

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8. Note: The next line in the instructions included in odf_filter.tar.bz2 file is wrong, so be sure to add the /(slash) before usr.
9. sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/
10. sudo cp MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/
11. Click Applications > Office > OpenOffice Word Processor.
12. Click open and select Microsoft Word 2007 document as the file type.
13. Done!

//–Source: Library Computer Guy’s Weblog–//