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documents; opening from Microsoft formatdocuments; importingimporting; documents in other formatopening; documents from other formatsloading; documents from other formats 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 to open your documents from another format, select that format in Tools - Options - Load/Save - General in the area headed Standard file format. Converting all documents of a folder Open the Wizard, which guides you through the operation, to convert all documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint into $[officename] documents. You can select a source and target directory, specify whether to convert documents and/or templates, and more besides. Choose File - Wizard - Document Converter.
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