ODF Support In Google Drive

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @06:21PM from the better-late-than-never dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google's Chris DiBona told a London conference last week that ODF support was coming next year, but today the Google Drive team unexpectedly launched support for all three of the main variants — including long-absent Presentation files. You can now simply open ODT, ODS and ODP files in Drive with no fuss. It lacks support for comments and changes but at least it shows progress towards full support of the international document standard, something conspicuously missing for many years.

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This is huge by blind+biker · 2014-12-16 19:50 · Score: 4, Insightful

I have been wishing for ODF support in Google Docs since forever. This one feature is what makes it now really feasible for me to start using the Google office tools - becauses I can then open the documents with a myriad other suites that work with ODF!

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Google's Beta by simplypeachy · 2014-12-17 01:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

"Features and services may be introduced and withdrawn without notice. Good luck relying on any of them at home or work."