.ODT File Extension
OpenDocument Text Document
| Developer | OASIS |
| Popularity |
3.4 | 379 Votes |
| Category | Text Files |
| Format | Zip |
What is an ODT file?
An ODT file is an OpenDocument text document, created by LibreOffice Writer, OpenOffice Writer, or another word processor. You can open an ODT file with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, or Google Docs. Those programs can convert ODT files to DOCX, DOC, PDF, and other document formats.
ODT files can contain resumes, essays, research papers, letters, manuscripts, or other documents created by a word processor. The ODT format is most often associated with LibreOffice Writer and Apache OpenOffice Writer, which are free alternatives to Microsoft Word.
Typically, students (and others who do not want to purchase Microsoft Word) use Writer to create ODT files. They then use these files in place of Word .DOCX files.
Writer includes many of the same document formatting and editing tools as Word. Therefore, just like DOCX files, ODT files can contain formatted text, inserted images, drawn objects, and inserted tables.
Technical information
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) maintains the OpenDocument standard, which is XML-based. ODT files are Zip-compressed files that contain .XML files and other data used to show a document.
How to open an ODT file
You can open an ODT file with many popular word processors, including:
These programs also let you convert ODT files to other formats. Note that you may lose some formatting if you open an ODT file in a program other than LibreOffice or OpenOffice or convert an ODT file to another format.
How to convert an ODT file
Various word processing applications, including LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, and Corel WordPerfect, can convert ODT files to other formats.
For example, LibreOffice Writer can convert ODT files to the following formats:
Programs that open ODT files
OOMMF Data Table
| Developer | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Popularity |
3.2 | 18 Votes |
| Category | Data Files |
| Format | Text |
An ODT file may also be 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.
OOMMF is a public domain micromagnetics package that allows physicists to solve micromagnetics problems. When a physicist solves a micromagnetics problem, OOMMF produces an ODT file that contains tabular text data. Each table includes:
- The solver iteration count
- Nominal applied field
- Reduced average magnetization
- Total energy
Each ODT file begins with the line # ODT 1.0, to identify it as an ODT file. In addition to tabular data, ODT files may also contain the following tags:
- Table Start: Used to segment a file containing multiple data tables
- Title: Used to specify a table's title
- Units: Used to specify data's units of measurement
- Table End: Paired with a corresponding Table Start tag
ODT files may also contain comments, preceded by ##.
How to open an ODT file
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.