I had saved a file in openoffice format on my home pc and then uploaded it to my work pc. When I got to work, I realized that I didn't have openoffice installed, only ms-word. In the interest of saving corporate bandwidth and laziness, I was trying to figure out a way to convert the file to ms-word without having to download and install openoffice. I had command line acces to my home pc through webadmin, but nothing else (ssh is blocked from work). In the end I gave in, downloaded openoffice, installed it, and used it to convert the file to ms-word doc. I'm still curious if there's a way to do it though.
-venkman