Crescent Pulsar S wrote:I have no idea what that is, or if it's a format I can use with wordpad.
It´s the standard text document form for OpenOffice and replacement LibreOffice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocumenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocum ... processorsEssentially it´s the fileformat for the free and open source replacement for MS Office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOfficeAnd wordpad supports it(though just minimally) ever since windows 7.
Libre office is free and also includes all other stuff that might be useful from MS Office, like spreadsheets and all that. And i´ve started to find spreadsheets rather useful for keeping track of complex numerical stuff for when writing.
Very useful and as its both free and open sourced, there´s not really a reason not to have it.
MS keeps trying to make MS Office look different and all, but mostly they´re just messing it up more for every new version(that usually breaks backwards file compatibility, unlike the .odt which remains the same). Last i looked there was just a small number of very specialised functions that MS Office had that LibreOffice does not, and they´re nothing i´ve ever needed.
Spokavriel wrote:I think .odt stands for Open document Text kinda like saving as a pure text file only a bit newer.
More like a free version of the .doc rather than .txt. If you look at a .odt file with a hexeditor it mostly looks like mashed up nonsense, like a .doc does, instead of the more or less raw text that you get from a .txt file