In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel. According to Apache, when working with an Excel sheet in ...

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.

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 ...

Google has released a trio of updates for Drive including support for importing Open Document Format (ODF) files, searching for Drive files from its Search app, and a way to share non-Google files as ...

Last week, I wrote about the recent Burton Group report that provided an overview of the Office Open XML (OOXML) and OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format specifications. The report, which is aimed at ...

NEW YORK (07/09/2007) – Microsoft Corp. is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc. to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and ...

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But perhaps the most important update in this version is improved interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. Apparently, users were experiencing bugs when opening ...

Microsoft has this week released a new update for its SkyDrive product, that allows you to host and share files within a cloud-based infrastructure, and access them from your web browser. The new ...

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 ...