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Microsoft Office;opening Microsoft documents documents; importing importing; documents in other formats opening; documents from other formats loading; documents from other formats converting;Microsoft documents Opening documents saved in other formats You can open a document saved in another format by using the following procedure: Choose File - Open. Select a format from the Files of type list. Select a file name and click Open. If you always want the file dialogs to show another format by default, choose Tools - Options - Load/Save - General and select that format as Standard file format. Converting all documents of a folder Open the wizard, which guides you through the operation, to copy and convert all documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint into OpenDocument file format documents. You can select a source and target directory, specify whether to convert documents and/or templates, and more besides. Choose File - Wizards - Document Converter.
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