Office should be able to handle the open document format. I know many people
who use other applications such as Open Office, and they're not going to stop
using them. It would be a great help to the community to allow seamless
communication between various products.

"sage" wrote:

I need to open a .odt document file. Word should be able to do this, but it
just comes up as gibberish.

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