What is the best option to open .docx, pptx files in Ubuntu LTS 8.04 ?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:11:54AM -0700, Steve Grace wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 16:34 +0530, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
> > Please help me in this matter because I need any converter or
> > supporting open-source software that help me on this matter.
> > May be this question has been asked so many times on the Ubuntu
> > mailing list but I don't know how to search the old email that
> > has been answered.
> 
> OpenOffice.org Writer opens .docx files.

What version? I get errors with the 2.4.1 that I believe is std issue
on 8.04. I have never successfully opened docx, xlsx or pptx files in
OO. In fact, its a right royal pain to get them converted. There is a
OO plugin from SuSE, but no joy with that for me. 

-- 
Hal