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as long as you save it as a compatible .doc .docx or something, it should work. obviously word can't open a .odt file.
Word can in fact open odt files. It was added quite a long time ago. Don't know how good the compatibility is, though
From my experince, an odt made in Libreoffice is what works best in both it and Word. But that's just how it's been for me, so who knows what weird things happen to other people when going back and forth between them.
Hmm I'll just send documents as .odt then. Embrace the libre way
and please do as .pdf aswell if you have students. Sometimes one of our profs powerpoint slides dont show equasions with a libre Software. So annoying!
My physics prof made it a whole thing and told us that the slides on Canvas are uploaded with .pdf so you can open it in the browser just fine without needing open office or something on Linux. First time a prof ever recognized the Linux community. I love physicists.
huh, the more you know.
Microsoft office has been able to open odt files since 2010.
Furthermore, LibreOffice does not always create/save files 100% compatible with MSO. I used to use Libre office because free. Word documents I have created/edited in LibreOffice were always a little broken layout wise when the document is opened in Word.
Whether it is because LibreOffice does a shitty job converting to docx when saving, Microsoft added in some anti competitor shit in Word or that the docx standard is vague is a discussion for another time.
that's interesting to learn. cool of them to implement it despite there not (directly) being anything in it for them.
"Can open" and 'can open without the layout being broken" are different things.