You can open .odt files with OpenOffice. Or ask the sender to
save the documents as Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf)
files and send those to you.

brucefryer wrote:

I am receiving odt documents and Word cannot open them. Cannot figure this
one out.

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