.ODT File Extension

An ODT file is a text document created by various word processing applications, such as the Writer program included with LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice. It contains formatted text and may include images, drawn objects, and tables. ODT files are similar to Microsoft Word .DOCX files.

You can open an ODT file in a variety of word processors, including:

• LibreOffice (cross-platform)
• OpenOffice Writer (cross-platform)
• Microsoft Word (cross-platform)
• Google Docs (Web, iOS, Android, Chrome OS)

You can also convert your ODT file to a DOCX file in these programs. Note that you may lose some formatting when you open an ODT file in a program other than LibreOffice or OpenOffice or convert an ODT file to another format.

Various word processing applications, including OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, and Corel WordPerfect, can convert ODT files to other formats.

For example, OpenOffice Writer can convert ODT files to one of the following formats:

• .OTT - OpenDocument Document Template
• .DOC - Microsoft Word Document (Legacy)
• .PDF - Portable Document Format
• .RTF - Rich Text Format
• .TXT - Plain Text
• .SXW - StarOffice Writer Document
• .STW - StarOffice Document Template
• .HTML, .XHTML - HTML Webpage
• .XML - Extensible Markup Language
• .UOT - Uniform Office Document
• .PSW - Pocket Word Document

An ODT file is a data file created by OOMMF (Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework), a micromagnetics analysis package developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It contains one or more tables of micromagnetics data saved as ASCII plain text. ODT files usually also contain tags and comments that describe the data they contain.

You can open an ODT file in OOMMF (multiplatform). Doing so will visually display the data the file contains. You can also open an ODT file in any text editor, to view the data it contains as plain text.

An ODT file is a dialog theme used by OriginLab Origin, a data analysis and graphing application. It contains analysis dialog box settings that control how a dialog box receives, analyzes, and outputs data. ODT files are saved in XML format, but they are not meant to be opened outside Origin.

Scientists and engineers across a variety of fields use Origin to import, analyze, and graph data. While analyzing data, users can open various dialog boxes that manipulate data in different ways. These dialog boxes have many settings a user can customize.

If a user wants to save the settings they've entered in a dialog box, they can select the triangle button that appears to the right of the Dialog Theme field and select Save As.... This saves the user's current settings as a dialog theme, or ODT file.

Users can save multiple themes for the same dialog box, and they can select from those themes using the triangle button. Users can also choose to set a certain ODT file as a dialog box's default theme.

NOTE: Origin typically saves ODT files in the C:/​Program Files/​OriginLab/​Origin<version>/​Themes/​Dialog directory.

Origin ODT files are not meant to be opened by users. To select a theme for an Origin dialog box, open that dialog box in Origin and then select the triangle button that appears to the right of the Dialog Theme field.