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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Opening documents saved in other formats</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153988"><bookmark_value>Microsoft Office;opening Microsoft documents</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>documents; importing</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>importing; documents in other formats</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>opening; documents from other formats</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>loading; documents from other formats</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>converting;Microsoft documents</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>saving; default file formats</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>defaults;document formats in file dialogs</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>file formats; saving always in other formats</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>Microsoft Office; as default file format</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>files;importing</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>XML converters</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>converters; XML</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>Document Converter Wizard</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>wizards; document converter</bookmark_value>
	 <bookmark_value>converters; document converter</bookmark_value>
         <bookmark_value>files, see also documents</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145313" role="heading" level="1"><variable id="import_ms"><link href="text/shared/guide/import_ms.xhp">Opening documents saved in other formats</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145345" xml-lang="en-US">You can open a document saved in another format by using the following procedure:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <emph>File - Open</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3152780" xml-lang="en-US">Select a format from the<emph> Files of type</emph> list.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148491" xml-lang="en-US">Select a file name and click <emph>Open</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159399" xml-lang="en-US">If you always want the file dialogs to show another format by default, choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - Load/Save - General</emph> and select that format as <emph>Default file format</emph>.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154898" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Converting all documents of a folder</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147336" xml-lang="en-US">Open the wizard, which guides you through the operation, to copy and convert all documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint into OpenDocument file format documents. You can select a source and target directory, specify whether to convert documents and/or templates, and more besides.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <link href="text/shared/autopi/01130000.xhp"><emph>File - Wizards - Document Converter</emph></link>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id4563127" role="heading" level="2">Opening HTML files in Writer</paragraph>
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               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9207434" role="listitem">Choose the file type "HTML Document" to open in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer/Web. This is the default for HTML documents in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item>.</paragraph>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7215491" role="listitem">All the options of <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer/Web are now available to you, such as <emph>Show HTML source</emph>.</paragraph>
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               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2299874" role="listitem">Choose "HTML Document (<item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer)" to open in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer.</paragraph>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1727347" role="listitem">All the options of <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer are now available to you. Not all options that <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer offers for editing of documents can be saved in HTML format.</paragraph>
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         <embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_import_export_limitations.xhp#about"/>
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         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148944" role="paragraph"><link href="text/shared/optionen/01130100.xhp">Working with VBA code</link></paragraph>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147264" role="paragraph"><link href="text/shared/optionen/01010200.xhp">Setting the default file format</link></paragraph>
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