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Will an .odt file created on a PC with Libre Office then saved to the SSD drive of a Macbook, open in Pages without conversion? Or, must I, SAVE AS, the file under another format? Or, do I have to use Libre Office for Mac? Or, must I get conversion software so I can use Pages? Or, should I convert the file before I save it to the mac to another format other than .odt?
Windows, Windows 10
You can open that .ODT file in LibreOffice (Mac) and then save as Word 2007 - 365 (.docx). LO may grumble about changing the document save format from .ODT. Pages opens Word documents and then converts them to Pages internal (.pages) document format without changing the original Word document. That conversion occurs again on any export.
ODT is an OpenDocument text file, and ODT is not a format that iWork Pages reads.
Microsoft Office can apparently read ODT files, as can the Mac TextEdit tool, as can LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Here? You’d need to use LibreOffice or OpenOffice, presumably Word, or to convert it.
There’s at least one Document Converter app on the Mac app store that claims ODT support.
Asking specific questions can and usually does get you specific answers. Which might not be the best answer.
Files are files, but details such as whether the volume structure can be read (FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32 can be read and written, and NTFS volumes can be read), and whether the file formats have matching apps or might contain content protection or other limits, can potentially derail transfers.
In general: Move your data from a Windows PC to a Mac - Apple Support
Assuming the migration works as expected—there wil be stuff that can’t resonably transfer—you can then open those ODT files with LibreOffice on a Mac running macOS.
ps: Apple II is ~forty years back, and the early Macs nearly that far. Stuff was rather more proprietary back then. There is still a whole lot of proprietary stuff now, but most user data tends to be somewhat more portable.
Thanx Viking. That sounds doable and more like what I had expected, if there was a way at all. I had figured there would be some conversion path to getting my files to the new MacBook I hope to get soon. I guess you know what I'm waiting for on it from all the hype. Looking forward to my return to Apple after 40 years of using MS OS products.
I am hoping to simply copy and paste files to USB drive 3 on the PC, then poke that into an adapter on the Mac Air, then again copy and paste to the Mac Air's SSD and go from there for conversion after loading Libre Office Mac. I guess I will have to convert the files one at a time, but they can stay there in .odt format until needed.
I have asked several times about this MS OS to iOS switch on communities. Few seem to know much about it. One member claimed files are files, just get them moved over and all is well. Not quite that easy and from my ancient experience with my various Apple computers including the first MAC and Apple II's/IIe's, traditionally, Apple and MS simply were not compatible in any way yet attempts were made to make them so that failed....back then.
Thanks,
ejb
Compatibility of PC to Mac of .odt files
