1) I don't believe you can even open a Microsoft Works document in Microsoft Office let alone OpenOffice (although I'm not sure if you can or can't, don't have a Works document to test with). I would say the short answer is to have the person who gave you the Works document to save it to a common type. So that really doesn't answer your question at all I guess. I don't speak Microsoft. :)
I believe there was one for SuSe before there was one for Red Hat but I could be mistaken. I also believe Connectiva was the first RPM based distro with it, and if I remember right Connectiva may have put a lot of work into it themselves. But my memory ain't so good so all of that could just be BS.
Void Main wrote:1) I don't believe you can even open a Micro$oft Works document in Micro$oft Office let alone OpenOffice (although I'm not sure if you can or can't, don't have a Works document to test with). I would say the short answer is to have the person who gave you the Works document to save it to a common type. So that really doesn't answer your question at all I guess. I don't speak Micro$oft.
1)yes you are 100% correct. microsoft office cannot even open microsoft works files, despite them being from the same software vendor and despite the software being incredibly expensive.
somebody said staroffice would open them, and the only other alternative would be to open them as text.
I will actually take your advice and get him to send me them as word documents (text and rich text seem beyond this guy, he was sold an old machine with windows and works on it - poor guy).
2) i will look into it though that url seems to be down at the moment.