Libre Office, an office suite developed under the auspices of The Document Foundation, uses the ODF document format by default, the main extensions of which are ODT (word processor), ODS (spreadsheet processors) and ODP (presentation). However, there may be a situation where a user has to send a lot of documents to other people and is not willing to use the Microsoft suite, so he is forced to send them in OOXML (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX).

Unfortunately, Microsoft and its proprietary suite dominate the market, but the worst thing is not the suite itself, but the way the Redmond corporation handled its document formats. Office 2007 started using OOXML (Office Open XML), which is an ISO approved standard. However, once the standard was created, the trap was set, so that the company was paradoxically characterized by not following the same standard that it was promoting, thereby hindering the compatibility of the rest of the office suites.

When loading the theme, the situation may arise where necessary set default Microsoft document formats to make it easier to work from LibreOfficeso we’re going to explain the steps to do the same with Writer, since a word processor is usually the most used application in office suites.

The first step is to go to the menu after opening Writer Tools then click on Options.

Then under Load/Save click on General and then select “Word 2007-365 (*docx)“in”always save as“. The user can also uncheck the “Warn when not saving to ODF or default document format” option to avoid behavior that hinders their work, but after setting OOXML as the default save format, this should not happen.

And after all that, when you try to save a document with LibreOffice (at least in Writer), it should mean that it does so as OOXML (DOCX) instead of ODF (ODT).