Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will officially add support for the Open Document Format ODF which is a free and open file format for electronic office documents. The format is already implemented in Open Office and users of Microsoft Office 2007 who want their product to be compatible can download the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office at Sun.
The current release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is scheduled for the first half of 2009 which means that it will take about a year before Microsoft is adding the support officially. Common Open Document File extensions are .oft for word processing, .ods for spreadhsheets, .odp for presentations and .odg for graphics.
The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of Microsoft Office 2007 the ability to load, save and edit odf files. The plugin is also compatible to previous editions of Microsoft Office including Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2000. The plugin integrates itself seamlessly into the Save and Load file dialogs and is translated into several languages including English, German, French, Spanish and a dozen more.
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[...] É possível que você saiba sobre o próximo Service Pack para o Office 2007 que permitirá que você trabalhe com mais formatos de arquivos como XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A e Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1. O formato ODF está se tornando popular atualmente por ser gratuito e um formato aberto para documentos. Com a chegada do SP2, no início de 2009,será possível abrir, editar e salvar documentos ODF e em outros formatos, incluindo PDF. Mas… se você não quer esperar ou precisa trabalhar com arquivos ODF, você pode baixar o plugin ODF agora no site da Sun. Este plugin também é compatível com versões anteriores do Office, incluindo Office XP, 2003 e 2000 (fonte: gHacks) [...]
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[...] you can download a plugin for MS Office that will add ODF support now. There is one from Sun (which I am given to understand is the version to be included in Office 2007 SP2 and later) or from the OpenOffice [...]
You reminded me about one notable event ;) On Monday I translated document from English to Russian via OpenOffice and OmegaT.
OmegaT is a translation program, which helps translator do his/her work. Main advantage of it for me is displaying original and translated text – so one can with ease review and correct or improve one’s translation, what isn’t that possible in ordinary text editors and word processors. It can use translation memories, glossaries etc. – like serious translation tools do. However, in contrast to very expensive and bloated commercial translation tools, OmegaT is 1) free 2) slim 3) written in Java, so cross-platform 4) pretty simple. And it accepts .odt format (they say, OOXML too).
So, when I received Word document, I opened it in OpenOffice Writer, converted to .odt, opened by OmegaT, translated, then converted to Word back – and all the formatting and pictures remain in place.
Isn’t this great? :)
I’ve never seen a document with an ODF extension.
Well because ODF is not an extension in itself. It is a collective name for the following extensions:
.odt
.ods
.odp
.odg
and another one I can’t recall.
Secondly, ODF is being used mostly by Government Agencies, NGOs, Non-Profits, and other archived-concerned and “compatibility” concerned and ISO-followers.
ODF is an ISO Standard. Only Microsoft’s Office product line-up doesn’t follow an ISO Standard. Now they’re being forced to because they are losing customers by the thousands worldwide.