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Supported formats of electronic documents
Electronic documents are the most frequently used computer files. Due to the highly developed modern computer network, it's more convenient to distribute electronic documents than printed ones. Nowadays, a lot of devices are used for document presentation, so there are plenty of proprietary and open file formats. The Document Editor handles the most popular of them.
While uploading or opening the file for editing, it will be converted to the Office Open XML (DOCX) format. It's done to speed up the file processing and increase the interoperability.
The following table contains the formats which can be opened for viewing and/or editing.
| Formats | Description | View natively | View after conversion to OOXML | Edit natively | Edit after conversion to OOXML |
| DjVu | File format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs | ||||
| DOC | Filename extension for word processing documents created with Microsoft Word | ||||
| DOCM | Macro-Enabled Microsoft Word Document Filename extension for Microsoft Word 2007 or higher generated documents with the ability to run macros | ||||
| DOCX | Office Open XML Zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents | ||||
| DOTX | Word Open XML Document Template Zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for text document templates. A DOTX template contains formatting settings, styles etc. and can be used to create multiple documents with the same formatting | ||||
| EPUB | Electronic Publication Free and open e-book standard created by the International Digital Publishing Forum | ||||
| FODT | A text document saved in the OpenDocument format, but stored as a flat XML file | ||||
| FB2 | An ebook extension that lets you read books on your computer or mobile devices | ||||
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language The main markup language for web pages | ||||
| HWP | Hangul Word Processor Hanword document file | ||||
| HWPX | Hangul Word Processor 2010 Document Hanword document file | ||||
| MHTML | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) HTML A web archive format that combines all the contents of a webpage. | ||||
| ODT | Word processing file format of OpenDocument, an open standard for electronic documents | ||||
| OFORM | An outdated and currently unused format to fill out a Form. You will be prompted to save it to PDF to be able to fill it out. | ||||
| OTT | OpenDocument Document Template OpenDocument file format for text document templates. An OTT template contains formatting settings, styles, etc., and can be used to create multiple documents with the same formatting | ||||
| Portable Document Format File format used to represent documents regardless of the used software, hardware, and operating systems | |||||
| PDF/A | Portable Document Format / A An ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents. | ||||
| RTF | Rich Text Format Document file format developed by Microsoft for cross-platform document interchange | ||||
| STW | StarOffice Document Template A file format used for saving word processing documents in OpenOffice.org Writer. An STW file can be edited using any other software that supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. STW files contain text, images, and other formatting information. | ||||
| SXW | StarOffice/OpenOffice Writer Document A text document format included in the StarOffice suite that is based on the OpenDocument XML format and is compatible with Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) Writer, the successor to StarOffice Writer. | ||||
| TXT | Filename extension for text files, usually containing very little formatting | ||||
| WPS | Microsoft Works Word Processor Text Document A text document created by Microsoft Works Word Processor, the word processing program that was replaced by Microsoft Word. WPS files are similar to Word documents, but they have fewer formatting options. | ||||
| WPT | WordPerfect Text Document A text file with .wpt extension is saved in a binary format and can contain text, charts, images, tables and other textual data. | ||||
| XML | Extensible Markup Language (XML). A simple and flexible markup language that derived from SGML (ISO 8879) and is designed to store and transport data. | ||||
| XPS | Open XML Paper Specification Open royalty-free fixed-layout document format developed by Microsoft |
The following table contains the formats in which you can download a document from the File -> Download as menu.
| Input format | Can be downloaded as |
| DjVu | DjVu, PDF |
| DOC | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| DOCM | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| DOCX | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| DOTX | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| EPUB | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| FB2 | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| HTML | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| MHTML | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, PDF, PDFA, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| ODT | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| OTT | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT | |
| PDF/A | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, PDF, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| RTF | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| STW | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, PDF, PDFA, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| SXW | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, PDF, PDFA, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| TXT | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| WPS | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, PDF, PDFA, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| WPT | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, PDF, PDFA, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| XML | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT |
| XPS | DOCX, DOTX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, JPG, ODT, OTT, PDF, PDF/A, PNG, RTF, TXT, XPS |
You can also refer to the conversion matrix on api.onlyoffice.com to see possibility of conversion your documents into the most known file formats.
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