• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    as long as you save it as a compatible .doc .docx or something, it should work. obviously word can’t open a .odt file.

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      10 months ago

      Word can in fact open odt files. It was added quite a long time ago. Don’t know how good the compatibility is, though

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      10 months ago

      Microsoft office has been able to open odt files since 2010.

      Furthermore, LibreOffice does not always create/save files 100% compatible with MSO. I used to use Libre office because free. Word documents I have created/edited in LibreOffice were always a little broken layout wise when the document is opened in Word.

      Whether it is because LibreOffice does a shitty job converting to docx when saving, Microsoft added in some anti competitor shit in Word or that the docx standard is vague is a discussion for another time.

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        10 months ago

        that’s interesting to learn. cool of them to implement it despite there not (directly) being anything in it for them.

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      10 months ago

      “Can open” and 'can open without the layout being broken" are different things.