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Microsoft Office software has supported the Open Document Format (ODF) for several years and Microsoft supply converters for earlier (before Office 2007) versions of Office that did not support the format.
It uses ODF (Open Document Format) created for OpenOffice. It can be read by many other software packages. Additionally, Openoffice and LibrOffice can also save in other formats including various releases of Microsoft Office.
Yes they are compatible! OpenOffice.org reads Microsoft office files fine, including the older office 2003 formats, and the newer xml based (2007+) ones. There maybe a few odd formatting things you need to tweek if you save from openoffice.org to Microsoft office, but generally it works fairly well. If you want the best compatibility, then try go-oo, a fork of openoffice that has better compatibility, even with stuff like Microsoft VBA macros. So yes, it works fine. And of course, openoffice always works better on Linux! Also, don't forget when saving to change 'odf' to Microsoft office. But you can change the default save format to msoffice if your using it frequently
The original program to create them was Adobe Writer. Now you can use some different PDF programs such as PDF Creator. OpenOffice is an office suite that can save in PDF format, Microsoft Office can't unless Adobe Writer is installed.
Nope - OpenOffice will read MS Office files without any problems. When you come to save the file, you can choose whether to save in OpenOffice format, or choose a different format from the drop-down menu.
that depends on what version of word processor you are using. the latest versions of Microsoft office push the limits of what is acceptable bloat for a word processor. Openoffice is free, small, and can install on almost anything that has Java Runtime installed, and has 250MB of free space. Plus it's compatible with Microsoft office formats.
Open Office files are 'open document format' - Microsoft programs should have no problem opening them.
There should be no problem running OpenOffice on Windows 10 and OpenOffice has always been able to read Word files (there may be problems writing some of those files back out as the same Word format due to licensing issues, but if you intend on switching to OpenOffice you will be saving as OpenOffice format not Word).
No, MS Office on any platform will not support the opendocument format (odt). Hoverver, there is a port of OpenOffice called NeoOffice for Mac or the new version of OpenOffice, 3.0.0, has a new aqua version of OpenOffice. You can use OO.o 3.0.0 or NeoOffice to open .odt files on a mac.
If the document from the Mac has been saved in a format recognised by Word then it can be opened by Word. There are variations in different versions of Word which means that sometimes even Word cannot open a Word document.
Go to File/Open and browse where you saved your file at. Remember you should have saved (in OpenOffice) in a format that Microsoft can read. Word: .doc, docx Excel: .xls; xlsx, PowerPoint: .pps; ppt; pptx
In Microsoft Word if you want to copy the format of a selection and not the content what do you do?