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List of software that supports Office Open XML

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Reference excerpt

This is an overview of software support for the Office Open XML format, a document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents. The list here is not exhaustive.

ECMA-376 1st edition implementations The ECMA-376 1st edition Office Open XML standard is supported by a number of applications from various vendors; listed alphabetically they include:

Text documents (.docx)

Word processors AbiWord includes an input filter for Office Open XML text documents beginning with version 2.6.0. Export of Office Open XML text documents is supported beginning with version 2.6.5. Adobe Creative Cloud Apache OpenOffice reads some .docx. It does not write .docx. Apple Inc.'s iWork '08 suite has read-only support for Office Open XML word processing file formats in Pages. Apple Inc.'s iPhone has read-only support for Office Open XML attachments to email. Apple Inc.'s TextEdit, the built-in word processing program of Mac OS X, has very basic read and write support for Office Open XML text files starting with Mac OS X v10.5. Atlantis Word Processor includes input and export filters for Office Open XML text documents (DOCX) beginning with version 1.6.3. Collabora Office enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice has built-in support for opening and writing Office Open XML files. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, iPadOS and Chromebooks. Collabora Online a web-based enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice word processor and suite has built-in support for opening and writing Office Open XML files. It is available online via html. Corel WordPerfect Office X5 can both read and write Office Open XML. DataViz' Documents To Go for Android, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS (UIQ, S80) supports Office Open XML documents. Evermore Software EIOffice Word Processor has import only Office Open XML support for text documents. It is available for Windows and Linux. Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application supports importing Office Open XML text documents. As of June 2014, DOCX files can be edited "natively," without conversion. IBM Lotus Symphony includes an input filter for Office Open XML text documents beginning with version 1.3. Jarte 3.0+ for Windows has import only Office Open XML support for text documents. JustSystems Ichitaro 2008 (Japanese) has built-in support for Office Open XML files. It is available for Windows and Linux. LibreOffice has built-in support for opening and writing Office Open XML files. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSDs, etc. MadCap Flare is a Help authoring tool that can generate multiple outputs including Office Open XML text documents, PDF, Clean XHTML output and other formats. Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, and Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows use the Office Open XML format as the default, but is unable to read files from other office tools that use Office Open XML as their format, e.g. SoftMaker Office files. Some older versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office (2000, XP and 2003) are able to read and write docx files after installation of the free compatibility pack provided by Microsoft, but some items such as equations are converted into images that cannot be edited. The compatibility pack is available for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and newer operating systems. It does not require Microsoft Office but does require Microsoft Windows. It can be used as a standalone converter with products that read Office's older binary formats, such as OpenOffice.org. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 support the Office Open XML format. For older versions of Office on the Mac, a converter is available. Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1 supports Office Open XML on Mobile devices. For Microsoft Word, see Microsoft Office above. Microsoft's version of Wordpad included with Windows 7 supports opening and saving in the docx format. The Mac OS X-based NeoOffice office suite supports opening, editing, and saving of most Office Open XML documents since version 2.1. Nisus Writer Pro has built-in, but rather limited, support for opening OOXML documents. ONLYOFFICE, an online office suite, can read and write Office Open XML format. OpenOffice.org had built-in support for opening Office Open XML text documents beginning with OpenOffice.org version 3.0 (October 2008). QuickOffice, a mobile office suite for Symbian and Palm OS, supports wordprocessing in Office Open XML format. Schreibchen 1.0.1 for Mac OS X can open and write Office Open XML text documents. It is a very simple word processor for disabled persons, children and other peoples that can not use (or like) other word processors or text editors. Schreiben 4.0.1, a simple and fast word processor for Mac OS X supports Office Open XML text documents. SoftMaker Office 2016 and 2012, an office suite for Windows, Linux, and Google Android supports .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx in its word processor, spreadsheet and presentation-graphics software respectively. SoftMaker Office 2018 uses Office Open XML as its default file format. The online Thinkfree Office supports Office Open XML word processing files. WPS Office Writer 2019 (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Mac) supports Office Open XML. Online word processor Zoho Writer supports exporting to the Office Open XML WordprocessingML format.

Viewers, filters and converters Apple Inc.'s Quick Look, the built-in quick preview feature of Mac OS X, supports Office Open XML files starting with Mac OS X v10.5. Collabora Office can also run headless online or locally as a filter and converter for Office Open XML files. It will do this under Windows, macOS, Linux. Collabora Online a web-based word processor and suite has built-in support for Office Open XML files. It can be embedded into html applications for viewers, filters and converters. DataViz MacLinkPlus Deluxe 16 supports Office Open XML file formats. Google Search supports direct HTML view of Office Open XML files. Found files can be viewed directly in a converted HTML view. Microsoft Office Open XML Converter for Mac OS X can convert Office Open XML files to the former binary file formats used in older versions of Microsoft Office. NativeWinds Docx2Rtf supports Office Open XML text documents. SoftMaker TextMaker Viewer 2009 is a free application that supports viewing and printing of documents in many word processing formats including Office Open XML text documents.

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