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Moonbase59 · 01-18-2022, 02:32 PM

Yup, it’s a shame that .odt isn’t held at the level of .docx (for Calibre). I (and many of my friends) ditched Windows in favour of Linux 10+ years ago, to happily never come back. So LibreOffice is the standard Office suite, of course. Many companies also use LO instead of the ever-changing MS Office, which often is not even backwards-compatible to its own documents.

Then again, maybe the sheer number (=market share) of MS Office users might have been the reason for that decision.

Took me a while to realize you’d have to save a LibreOffice Writer document in the ("foreign") .docx format instead of the native .odt to get full functionality.

01-18-2022, 02:32 PM	#4
Moonbase59 Addict Posts: 231 Karma: 1000244 Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: Germany Device: Tolino Vision 5, Tolino Tab 8", Pocketbook Era (16GB)	Yup, it’s a shame that .odt isn’t held at the level of .docx (for Calibre). I (and many of my friends) ditched Windows in favour of Linux 10+ years ago, to happily never come back. So LibreOffice is the standard Office suite, of course. Many companies also use LO instead of the ever-changing MS Office, which often is not even backwards-compatible to its own documents. Then again, maybe the sheer number (=market share) of MS Office users might have been the reason for that decision. Took me a while to realize you’d have to save a LibreOffice Writer document in the ("foreign") .docx format instead of the native .odt to get full functionality. Last edited by Moonbase59; 01-19-2022 at 06:16 AM.