Re: Just to be very clear about Office

> You will find the user interface
> different.  It is capable of reading and writing microsoft file
> formats,

OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro
compatibility
with Excel.

> I dn't know what to do if you want to run Microsoft Office on a Linux system.
> Rumours are that it can be run on Wine to some extent.

Older versions, yes, newer versions not so much.
Buy a Windows license with the MS Office license and run them in a vm.