Libre office

users
#1

Can you please tell me which type of documents WRITER will read. e.g.
Word, Works,? Open office,PDF etc.
Thank you for your help
Fred

#2

menu:File>Open...
see the list of file types

The list of types in menu:File>Save As... shows the file types that can
be opened and saved.

The file types in menu:File>Export... shows file types that can be saved
but not opened.

#3

a list of extensions + names......

602 txt T602 Document
abw zabw AbiWord Document
cwk ClarisWorks/AppleWorks Document
doc Microsoft WinWord 5
doc Microsoft Word 6.0
doc Microsoft Word 95
doc Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003
doc Microsoft Word for Mac (v1 - v5)
docx docm Office Open XML Text Document
dot MS Word 95 Template
dot MS Word 97/2000 Template
dotx dotm
dotx dotm Office Open XML Text Template
Help content
hqx zip DOCMaker (v4) Document
hqx zip eDOC (v2) Document
hqx zip LightWayText for Mac v4.5
hqx zip Nisus Writer Mac Classic v3.4 - 6.5
hqx zip TeachText/SimpleText v1 Document
hqx zip Tex-Edit v2 Document
hqx zip Z-Write 1.3 Document
hwp Hangul WP 97
lwp LotusWordPro Document
mwd Mariner Write Mac Classic v1.6 - v3.5
mw mcw MacWrite Document
mw mcw MacWriteII or MacWritePro Document
odm Writer 8 Master Document
odt Writer 8
oth Writer/Web 8 Template
ott Writer 8 Template
rtf Rich Text Format
stw Writer 6.0 Template
stw Writer/Web 6.0 Template
sxg Writer 6.0 Master Document
sxw OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document
wn nx^d WriteNow Document
wpd WordPerfect Document
wps Microsoft Works Document
wps Microsoft Works for Mac Document (v1 - v4)
xml DocBook
xml doc Microsoft Word 2003 XML
xml Writer Layout Dump

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
The problem is that not all of those formats are consistent all the time.
Where any of those formats have many different implementations in different
programs, or different versions of the same programs then LibreOffice (and
OpenOffice) tends to be one of the best around.

Some LibreOffice users have been able to help colleagues share files
between different versions of MS Office where their colleagues struggled to
share directly with each other. Direct sharing of files between different
versions of MS Office is a little hampered by the differences in the
"transitional" specs for 'docX' in MS Office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 365 -
none of which seems happy to open 'strict' OOXML (unlike LibreOffice (and
other non-MS programs&suites) which handles "strict" DocX fine too).

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: