Because OpenDocument-based products are not widely used, the financial incentive for corporate or governmental customers is still not thoroughly tested, analysts and industry executives said.

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. Patrick Gannon, the ...

A lot of misinformation about the OpenDocument digital format has started to appear in the mainstream media and interest groups. Answers to many questions on the topic already have appeared, but they ...

The software giant will sponsor an open-source project to create a converter between Open Office XML and OpenDocument file formats.

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance ...

You can convert OpenDocument presentation to video in Apache OpenOffice Impress software. But, as it doesn’t provide any native function to perform the conversion, you will have to use an extension.

The OpenDocument Format Alliance also claims that ODF is the only established open-standard document format, and that it enables the retrieval of information and exchange of documents between ...

OpenDocument proponents hope that widespread use of the standard, which Microsoft does not yet support, will spur adoption of software that competes with the company’s Office productivity suite.

Microsoft’s decision to allow its Office software to handle the increasingly popular OpenDocument Format (ODF) was a belated acknowledgement that the company could lose customers if it didn’t ...

Windows only: Open OpenDocument Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office using the OpenXML/ODF Translator, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. One of t ...

Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. Attackers have a new obfuscation technique that uses the OpenDocument file format for sneaking payloads ...