Can I open Microsoft Word 2007 documents in OpenOffice?

[emle77]

Welcome beginner. Please answer all of the questions below which may provide information necessary to answer your question.
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Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using?2.4
What Operating System (version) are you using?2000 xp
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I just had a trial version of microsoft office 2007 and uninstalled it and installed open office. I was under the assumption that you can open word documents in open office but it wont let me is this possible at all?

[Caracalla]

I'd advice you to read the sticky just above your thread.
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... f=5&t=4542

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

It is possible to open Word documents in OpenOffice, but not Word 2007 (docx) documents. To do that one has to install an extension. A search for "docx" or "Word 2007" should find several previous threads on this.