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Posted Jun 5, 2025 10:52 UTC (Thu) by grawity (subscriber, #80596)Parent article: The importance of free software to science
> Biologists working in Word should create copies of their drafts in one of Word's text-based formats, such as .docx or .odt; though these files may not be openable by future versions of Word, their contents will remain readable
In particular because .odt isn't even a Word format – it's the OpenOffice/LibreOffice format that Word only has secondary support for.
Though compatibility of LibreOffice with Word-produced .docx vs Word-produced .odt might well be the same these days?