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40 <topic id=
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"PUBLISH">
41 <title id=
"tit" xml-lang=
"en-US">Opening documents saved in other formats
</title>
42 <filename>/text/shared/guide/import_ms.xhp
</filename>
46 <section id=
"chapter_all">
47 <bookmark xml-lang=
"en-US" branch=
"index" id=
"bm_id3153988"><bookmark_value>Microsoft Office;opening Microsoft documents
</bookmark_value>
48 <bookmark_value>documents; importing
</bookmark_value>
49 <bookmark_value>importing; documents in other formats
</bookmark_value>
50 <bookmark_value>opening; documents from other formats
</bookmark_value>
51 <bookmark_value>loading; documents from other formats
</bookmark_value>
52 <bookmark_value>converting;Microsoft documents
</bookmark_value>
53 <bookmark_value>saving; default file formats
</bookmark_value>
54 <bookmark_value>defaults; file formats in file dialogs
</bookmark_value>
55 <bookmark_value>file formats; saving always in other formats
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56 <bookmark_value>Microsoft Office; as default file format
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57 <bookmark_value>files;importing
</bookmark_value>
58 <bookmark_value>XML converters
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59 <bookmark_value>converters; XML
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60 <bookmark_value>Document Converter Wizard
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61 <bookmark_value>wizards; document converter
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62 </bookmark><comment>MW made file import a two level entry (
"files;importing")
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"en-US" level=
"1" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"2"><variable id=
"import_ms"><link href=
"text/shared/guide/import_ms.xhp" name=
"Opening documents saved in other formats">Opening documents saved in other formats
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63 </variable></paragraph>
64 <paragraph role=
"paragraph" id=
"par_id3145345" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"3">You can open a document saved in another format by using the following procedure:
</paragraph>
67 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id3147242" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"4">Choose
<emph>File - Open
</emph>.
</paragraph>
70 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id3152780" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"5">Select a format from the
<emph> Files of type
</emph> list.
</paragraph>
73 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id3148491" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"6">Select a file name and click
<emph>Open
</emph>.
</paragraph>
76 <paragraph role=
"paragraph" id=
"par_id3159399" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"CHG" oldref=
"8">If you always want the file dialogs to show another format by default, choose
<emph>Tools - Options - Load/Save - General
</emph> and select that format as
<emph>Default file format
</emph>.
</paragraph>
77 <paragraph role=
"heading" id=
"hd_id3154898" xml-lang=
"en-US" level=
"2" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"9">Converting all documents of a folder
</paragraph>
78 <paragraph role=
"paragraph" id=
"par_id3147336" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"CHG" oldref=
"10">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>
79 <list type=
"unordered">
81 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id3153824" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"11">Choose
<link href=
"text/shared/autopi/01130000.xhp" name=
"File - AutoPilot - Document Converter"><emph>File - Wizards - Document Converter
</emph></link>.
</paragraph>
84 <switch select=
"appl">
85 <case select=
"WRITER"><paragraph role=
"heading" id=
"hd_id4563127" xml-lang=
"en-US" level=
"2" l10n=
"NEW">Opening HTML files in Writer
</paragraph>
86 <list type=
"unordered">
88 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id9207434" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"NEW">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>
89 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id7215491" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"NEW">All the options of
<item type=
"productname">%PRODUCTNAME
</item> Writer/Web are now available to you, such as
<emph>Show HTML source
</emph>.
</paragraph>
92 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id2299874" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"NEW">Choose
"HTML Document (<item type="productname
">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Writer)" to open in
<item type=
"productname">%PRODUCTNAME
</item> Writer.
</paragraph>
93 <paragraph role=
"listitem" id=
"par_id1727347" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"NEW">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>
98 <section id=
"relatedtopics">
99 <embed href=
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100 <embed href=
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101 <embed href=
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102 <embed href=
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103 <paragraph role=
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"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"12"><link href=
"text/shared/optionen/01130100.xhp" name=
"Working with VBA code">Working with VBA code
</link></paragraph>
104 <paragraph role=
"paragraph" id=
"par_id3147264" xml-lang=
"en-US" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"13"><link href=
"text/shared/optionen/01010200.xhp" name=
"Setting the default file format">Setting the default file format
</link></paragraph>
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