Editing OpenOffice.org (section)

== File formats ==
From Version 2.0 onward, OpenOffice.org used ISO/IEC 26300:2006<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.iso.org/iso/home/news_index/news_archive/news.htm?refid=Ref1004
|title=ISO and IEC approve OpenDocument OASIS standard for data interoperability of office applications
|date=8 May 2006
|access-date=23 April 2013
|work=ISO Press Releases
|publisher=[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102041911/http://www.iso.org/iso/home/news_index/news_archive/news.htm?refid=Ref1004
|archive-date=2 November 2013
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> [[OpenDocument]] as its native format. Versions 2.0–2.3.0 default to the ODF 1.0 file format; versions 2.3.1–2.4.3 default to ODF 1.1; versions 3.0 onward default to ODF 1.2.

OpenOffice.org 1 used [[OpenOffice.org XML]] as its native format. This was contributed to [[OASIS (organization)|OASIS]] and OpenDocument was developed from it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openoffice.org/xml/general.html |title=OpenOffice.org XML File Format |access-date=22 September 2013 |publisher=Sun Microsystems |archive-date=20 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920212503/http://www.openoffice.org/xml/general.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

OpenOffice.org also claimed support for the following formats:<ref name="fileformats">{{cite web|url=http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation%2FOOo3_User_Guides%2FGetting_Started%2FFile_formats&oldid=175577|title=File formats OOo can open|date=17 July 2010|access-date=20 June 2013|work=OpenOffice.org Wiki|publisher=Oracle Corporation|archive-date=29 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629134404/http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation%2FOOo3_User_Guides%2FGetting_Started%2FFile_formats&oldid=175577|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="started2x">{{cite web|url=http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation%2FOOoAuthors_User_Manual%2FGetting_Started%2FFile_formats&oldid=74444|title=Getting Started Guide for OpenOffice.org 2.x&nbsp;— File formats|date=23 April 2008|access-date=20 June 2013|work=OpenOffice.org Wiki|publisher=Sun Microsystems|archive-date=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904074256/https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Documentation%2FOOoAuthors_User_Manual%2FGetting_Started%2FFile_formats&oldid=74444|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="sortable collapsible collapsed wikitable"
|-
!Format
!Extension
!Reading
!Writing
!Notes
|-
|[[OpenOffice.org XML]]
|SXW, STW, SXC, STC, SXI, STI, SXD, STD, SXM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|native up to 1.x
|-
|[[Microsoft Word]] for Windows 2
|DOC, DOT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|Microsoft Word 6.0/95
|DOC, DOT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|Microsoft Word 97–2003
|DOC, DOT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Microsoft Word#XML Document (Word 2003)|Microsoft Word 2003 XML]] (WordprocessingML)
|XML
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Microsoft Excel]] 4/5/95
|XLS, XLW, XLT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|Microsoft Excel 97–2003
|XLS, XLW, XLT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[DocBook]]
|XML
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|since 1.1
|-
|[[WordPerfect]]
|WPD
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[WordPerfect Suite]] 2000/Office 1.0
|WPS
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[StarOffice]] StarWriter 3/4/5
|SDW, SGL, VOR
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Ichitaro (word processor)|Ichitaro]] 8/9/10/11
|JTD, JTT
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[ApportisDoc]] (Palm)
|PDB
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Requires Java
|-
|[[Hangul (word processor)|Hangul]] WP 97
|HWP
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|Microsoft Pocket Word
|PSW
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Requires Java
|-
|Microsoft Pocket Excel
|PXL
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Requires Java
|-
|Microsoft RTF
|RTF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|"you are likely to experience loss of formatting and images"<ref name="started2x"/>
|-
|Plain text
|TXT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|various encodings supported
|-
|[[Portable Document Format]]
|PDF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Export from 1.1;<ref name="ooo11" /> [[PDF/A]]-1a (ISO 19005-1) export from 2.4;<ref name="ooo240" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=API%2FTutorials%2FPDF_export&oldid=169158|title=API/Tutorials/PDF export|date=24 May 2010|work=OpenOffice.org Wiki|publisher=Oracle Corporation|access-date=22 May 2011|archive-date=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904074256/https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=API%2FTutorials%2FPDF_export&oldid=169158|url-status=live}}</ref> some readable in Impress
|-
|Comma-separated values
|CSV, TXT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|Microsoft Excel 2003 XML
|XML
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Lotus 1-2-3]]
|WK1, WKS, 123
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[Data Interchange Format]]
|DIF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|StarOffice StarCalc 3/4/5
|SDC, VOR
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[dBase]]
|DBF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|SYLK
|SLK
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[HTML]]
|HTML, HTM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Quattro Pro]] 6.0
|WB2
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[Microsoft PowerPoint]] 97–2003
|PPT, PPS, POT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|StarOffice StarDraw/StarImpress
|SDA, SDD, SDP, VOR
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[Computer Graphics Metafile]]
|CGM
|{{yes}}
|
|Binary-encoded only; not those using clear-text or character based encoding
|-
|StarOffice StarMath
|SXM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|[[MathML]]
|MML
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[BMP file format]]
| BMP
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[JPEG]]
| JPG, JPEG
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[PCX]]
| PCX
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Photoshop]]
| PSD
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| SGV
| SGV
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Windows Metafile]]
| WMF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[AutoCAD DXF]]
| DXF
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| MET
| MET
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[Netpbm format]]
| PGM, PBM, PPM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[SunOS]] Raster
| RAS
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| SVM
| SVM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[X BitMap]]
| XBM
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Enhanced Metafile]]
| EMF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[HPGL]] plotting file
| PLT
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| SDA
| SDA
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Truevision TGA]] (Targa)
| TGA
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[X PixMap]]
| XPM
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[Encapsulated PostScript]]
| EPS
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| PCD
| PCD
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Portable Network Graphics]]
| PNG
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| SDD
| SDD
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
| [[Tag Image File Format]]
| TIF, TIFF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| [[Graphics Interchange Format]]
| GIF
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| PCT
| PCT
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| SGF
| SGF
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[Adobe Flash]]
|SWF
|
|{{yes}}
|Export from Impress
|-
|[[Scalable Vector Graphics]]
|SVG
|
|{{yes}}
|Export from Draw
|-
|[[Software602]] (T602)
|602, TXT
|{{yes}}
|
|
|-
|[[Uniform Office Format]]
|UOF, UOT, UOS, UOP
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|since 3.0
|-
|Microsoft Office 2007 [[Office Open XML]]
|DOCX, XLSX, PPTX
|{{yes}}
|
|read since 3.0;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/ |title=3.0 New Features |publisher=Openoffice.org |access-date=5 January 2013 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125024230/http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/ |url-status=live }}</ref> writing only in derivatives descended via [[go-oo]]
|}