Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of the most obvious benefits is being able to open ...

Developers funded by Microsoft delivered on Friday the first phase of an open source tool designed to translate between the default Office 2007 file type and a competing open source document format.

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default—but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to ...

After suffering a setback from the ISO when the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) received approval as the international standard, Microsoft has restated its commitment to push ...

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World Wide ...

A group of software developers have created a program to make Microsoft Office work with files in the OpenDocument format, a move that would bridge currently incompatible desktop applications. Gary ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default — but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...