Supported File formats

OpenOffice uses ISO/IEC 26300:2006 OpenDocument as its native format. Versions 2.0–2.3.0 of OpenOffice default to the ODF 1.0 file format; OpenOffice versions 2.3.1–2.4.3 default to ODF 1.1.

Up to 1.x, OpenOffice used OpenOffice.org XML. This was contributed to OASIS and OpenDocument was developed from it.

OpenOffice also claims support for the following formats:

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 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 8/9/10/11 JTD, JTT Yes ApportisDoc (Palm) PDB Yes Yes Requires Java 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" Plain text TXT Yes Yes various encodings supported Portable Document Format PDF Yes Yes Export from 1.1; PDF/A-1a (ISO 19005-1) export from 2.4; 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 Graphic PNG Yes Yes SDD SDD Yes Tagged 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 Unified Office Format UOF, UOT, UOS, UOP Yes Yes since 3.0