The reason I installed OpenOffice is because my dad recommended it when I was facing an issue with the copy of MS Office that we had. It is quite an annoyance however that the DOCX files when opened with OpenWriter have to be converted to ODF inorder to be saved. We typically use Windows and MS Office is just shipped with it usually. I want to guess that this is also an online compatible filetype as GMail and Whatsapp are able to open it. However, I have not had the chance to test ODF and would like to know why the software forces this conversion and ontop of that states there will be loss of something when saving in this format.
Sincerely, N. Kartha Engineer Ph: +91-7356655935 (WA) KL, IN-682024
