LibreOffice is installed on the linux machines and it capable of viewing Microsoft documents. Just run /usr/bin/libreoffice or select it from the applications menu in your windows manager.
You can view the file using evince, libreoffice, gv or xpdf. LibreOffice supports printing to PDF files.
Press the escape key (esc on some machines) to make sure you are in command mode (also called edit mode). In command mode type "ZZ" or ":wq". If you want to exit without saving changes, use ":q!".
Hold down the ctrl key and press x; then c. Please make sure you exit before you log out. See the man pages on Emacs for more information.
The two major UNIX editors are emacs and vi. Other editors installed are xedit, xemacs, pico, ed, sublime_text, and nano.