On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:17, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files? If so, where can I get >> it? This file type cannot be opened with OpenOffice.org 2.3. TIA! > > I'm successfully using the RPM distribution of OpenOffice 3.1 > available from the openoffice.org website. I'm even using it on CentOS > 4 machines and it's working OK! <snip> Filipe: Thank you for the very quick and very detailed reply. Much appreciated! Follow on questions: (a) Should I uninstall the OpenOffice.org 2.3 group I installed with the distro? (If so, can you give me the yum command to uninstall the entire OpenOffice.org group?) (b) If I should leave OO 2.3 as is, should I install OpenOffice 3.1 into /usr/local? Lanny