Word and Open Office?

Question

Can Word and Open Office co-exist on same computer with problems? Is there any advantage?

Answer 1

yes i thing but i know that open office can open ward files  

Answer 2

You can have them both on the same machine with no problems.  There's not that much of an advantage, though.  Word can't open .odt files, so if you have some of them, you will need OpenOffice.