I always had problems viewing Microsoft office files(*.doc, *.ppt etc.) in Ubuntu. Openoffice doesn't understand the format in which Office XP/2003/2007 etc. store these files(and why should it? after all they don't comply to the open standards). But the important point is, I should be able to view and edit these files; so that when my collegues(Windows users) view/edit these files, they shouldn't complain.
So, I installed Office XP under "wine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software). The version of wine that is compatible with Office XP(2002) is 1.0.1. The version of wine is important because I upgraded to a newer version of wine 1.1.36 and Office XP applications started crashing.
For others there is also an option to install entire Windows OS under "vmware" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation. This has the added benefit of using proprietary MS applications under Linux without the need to dual-boot.
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