
The suite includes components for text documents, spreadsheets.

docx support, but in my view best to stay away from that format. OpenOffice by Apache is an open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office software suite. If you need to share with others, /File /Save As and select MS Word 97/2000/XP from the file type dropdown make sure "automatic file name extension" is checked. If so, select all, copy, and paste into a blank Writer file, which you should save and work in Writer's native format (.odt for text documents). docx file is corrupt, download the free MS Word Viewer from the MS site and see if that opens the file. docx for reading and definitely not for writing. It can also happen if the computer has been powered down too quickly after closure of the file on previous edit, that is, before the internal housekeeping has been completed. If you get an ASCII filter dialog this indicates that OpenOffice cannot understand the file frequently this is a sign that the file is corrupt, which can happen if it has been moved from another computer and the USB device protocols have not been honoured.
