There is a viewer that allows you to view and print Word 97 documents in Windows 3.1, however, you cannot edit them.
I've heard of people installing version 1.0 on a Windows 3.1 machine that had the Win32s extensions, but the system requirements page for OpenOffice 1.0.x do not mention Windows 3.1.
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