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Old 03-12-2012, 08:42 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo View Post
I've noticed that there is far less formatting jargon in an OpenOffice .odt than in a word .doc, which is probably why Calibre accepts them.
The reason is that odt files are well documented human-readable xml files inside a zip archive. Much like epub.
Take an *.odt file and rename it to *.odt.zip
Now you can look inside and change anything.
Docx are similar to odt, except Microsoft doesn't adhere to their own standard ;-)

On the other hand *.doc files (newer than MSWord 6.0) are DESIGNED to be undecipherable by anybody but Microsoft. And it did wonders for building monopoly. Phew!
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