Can Word open a .odt file?

I dot understand wy word does not support .odt files,

because if you make a word document in Microsoft onedrive it is automatically odt

word online support it also (sort of) but it has comparability problems (like with images)

it is very frustrating because when you want to edit it in the (full) offline version it will not open :/

if you want to open you document I recommend to instal libre office and save it as an .docx file :/

Your assertion that ODF support was removed from Microsoft Office is false.

As I already stated, although ODF is an open file format that is backed by an open standard, the ODF format was replaced by OOXML. There's not much point in adding support for older technologies when the world has by and large adopted its replacement.

This is nonsense, and a very weaselly use of the passive to avoid saying who did what. ODF was adopted as a standard. MS dropped it in favour of OOXML, which was accepted as an international standard amidst much controversy. The ODF standard was never dropped by anyone other than MS, and development on ODF continues.

You can just install LibreOffice instead which is free and supports out of the box all open document formats.

Don't accept the Microsoft line -- the false premise -- that there is a "the standard".  Multiple formats can be certified as an ISO and ECMA standard.  Their claim that the certification of OOXML makes ODT obsolete is just propaganda.  ODT remains a ISO standard.

Now that Microsoft has obtained standards approval for their proposed file format, they have stopped supporting ODT to attempt to force all other Office applications to use their file formats.

It is unfortunate that the supposed moderator is using a forum to disseminate Microsoft propaganda.