Getting Started Guide

Opening spreadsheets
In addition to OpenDocument formats (.ods and .ots), Calc 3 can open the formats
used by OOo 1.x (.sxc and .stc) and the following spreadsheet formats:
Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls, .xlw, and .xlt)
Microsoft Excel 4.x–5.0/95 (.xls, .xlw, and .xlt)
Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (.xml)
Microsoft Excel 2007 XML (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlts, .xltm)
Microsoft Excel 2007 binary (.xlsb)
Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1, .wks, and .123)
Data Interchange Format (.dif)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Text CSV (.csv and .txt)
StarCalc formats (.sdc and .vor)
dBASE (.dbf)
SYLK (.slk)
Unified Office Format spreadsheet (.uos, .uof)
HTML Document (.htm and .html files, including Web page queries)
Pocket Excel (pxl)
Quattro Pro 6.0 (.wb2)
Opening presentations
In addition to OpenDocument formats (.odp, .odg, and .otp), Impress 3 can open the
formats used by OOo 1.x (.sxi and .sti) and the following presentation formats:
Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt and .pot)
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx, .pptm, .potx, .potm)
StarDraw and StarImpress (.sda, .sdd, .sdp, and .vor)
Unified Office Format presentation (.uop, .uof)
CGM – Computer Graphics Metafile (.cgm)
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Opening graphic files
In addition to OpenDocument formats (.odg and .otg), Draw 3 can open the formats
used by OOo 1.x (.sxd and .std) and the following graphic formats:
BMP JPEG, JPG PCX PSD SGV WMF
DXF MET PGM RAS SVM XBM
EMF PBM PLT SDA TGA XPM
EPS PCD PNG SDD TIF, TIFF
GIF PCT PPM SGF VOR
Opening formula files
In addition to OpenDocument Formula (.odf) files, Math 3 can open the format used
by OOo 1.x (.sxm), StarMath, (.smf), and MathML (.mml) files.
When opening a Word document that contains an embedded equation editor object, if
the option for it (MathType to OpenOffice.org Math/ OpenOffice.org to MathType) is
checked in Tools > Options > Load/Save > Microsoft Office, the object will be
automatically converted to an OpenOffice.org Math object.
368 Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.3