Opening documents saved in other formats

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 saving; default file formats defaults;document formats in file dialogs file formats; saving always in other formats Microsoft Office; as default file format files;importing XML converters converters; XML Document Converter Wizard wizards; document converter converters; document converter files, see also documents MW inserted cross-reference "files, see also documents"MW changed "defaults;..."ufi added "converters;document converter" 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 %PRODUCTNAME - PreferencesTools - Options - Load/Save - General and select that format as Default 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. Opening HTML files in Writer Choose the file type "HTML Document" to open in %PRODUCTNAME Writer/Web. This is the default for HTML documents in %PRODUCTNAME. All the options of %PRODUCTNAME Writer/Web are now available to you, such as Show HTML source. Choose "HTML Document (%PRODUCTNAME Writer)" to open in %PRODUCTNAME Writer. All the options of %PRODUCTNAME Writer are now available to you. Not all options that %PRODUCTNAME Writer offers for editing of documents can be saved in HTML format.