.odt or .sxw ?

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 13 15:30:55 UTC 2007


Chris Aitken wrote:
> I think that this is a simple enough OO question that it's not worth 
> joining their mailing list:
>
> My OO 2.2 defaults to .odt when saving files. So, I keep saving it as 
> .sxw. I have to keep comfirming that I want to save as .sxw. I'm tired 
> of doing this. Is there no .sxw 2.x file format. Is .odt the new 
> standard. Almost all of my saved files are .sxw. Should I be making 
> the switch. I don't think I use any of the newer features (whatever 
> they are) that I'm ever going to lose anything critical either way. I 
> guess OO is just warning me that some features may not be there if I 
> create in OO 2.2 but save in OO 1. I guess OO 2.2 doesn't look at 
> what's in my specific document before advising.
>
> A minor annoyance but I'd like to know if I should change how I'm 
> doing things.
>

The default format for OpenOffice 2 is the ISO standard OpenDocument 
Format.  If you want to always save in the older OpenOffice 1 formats, 
you can make that the default.  However, is there any reason to continue 
using the older format?  The only reason I can think of, is that you 
want to give the files to someone who can only run the 1.x versions of 
OpenOffice or equivalent StarOffice.  OpenOffice 2 can read and write 
both file types.  If you wish, you can convert all your existing files 
to the new format by using a wizard.  I'd say go with the new format, as 
it is the ISO standard.


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