# Opening documents saved in other formats

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Microsoft Office;opening Microsoft documents
documents; importing
importing; documents in other formats
opening; documents from other formats
loading; documents from other formats
converting;Microsoft documents
saving; default file formats
defaults;document formats in file dialogs
file formats; saving always in other formats
Microsoft Office; as default file format
files;importing
XML converters
converters; XML
Document Converter Wizard
wizards; document converter
converters; document converter
files, see also documents
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Opening documents saved in other formats
You can open a document saved in another format by using the following procedure:
- Choose File - Open.
- Select a format from the Files of type list.
- Select a file name and click Open.
If you always want the file dialogs to show another format by default, choose %PRODUCTNAME - Preferences Tools - Options - Load/Save - General and select that format as Default file format.
Converting all documents of a folder
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.
- Choose File - Wizards - Document Converter.
Opening HTML files in Writer
- Choose the file type "HTML Document" to open in %PRODUCTNAME Writer/Web. This is the default for HTML documents in %PRODUCTNAME.
  All the options of %PRODUCTNAME Writer/Web are now available to you, such as Show HTML source.
- Choose "HTML Document (%PRODUCTNAME Writer)" to open in %PRODUCTNAME Writer.
  All the options of %PRODUCTNAME Writer are now available to you. Not all options that %PRODUCTNAME Writer offers for editing of documents can be saved in HTML format.
Working with VBA code
Setting the default file format