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I'm using Office for Mac 2008, version 12.3.5. I've received a .odt (Open Office) file on an email but cannot open it. I did get a message that the file may be corrupt or contain unreadable elements. Is there anything I can download to read it assuming that it just hasn't been recognised or should Word read it & therefore it must be corrupt?
Thanks
Janet
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Word Online defaults to docx format, not odt. Odt is an optional save format in that version. Here is Microsoft's page on which features are supported: Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format used by Word Online
Exactly what point are you trying to make? Support for ODF has been added only to Windows versions of Microsoft Office.
This Community addresses issues pertaining to Microsoft Office for Mac. Accordingly, this specific thread refers to Word 2008 for Mac. Within that context, Jim's reply is wholly accurate. Office 2010 is a Windows version as is Office 2013.
Starting from Microsoft Office 2010, natively support ODF format. ;-)
In a corporate environment you can use a local cloud instead of a public cloud for document storage and application hosting. Microsoft Office is the same web version whether your organization is doing the hosting or Microsoft is doing the hosting.
If you decide to share a test file with the public, it goes without saying that you must first purge the document of personal and private content before sharing.
Using an online-service is not an option for sensitive documents in a corporate environment.