Converting Files

Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 7:56 AM | Category: Links, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech 2 comments

I received an .odt file for posting on an organization’s Web site. Open Office‘s word processor uses this file format. I didn’t want to download and install Open Office even though it cost nothing. And going back to the sender wasn’t a good idea because she would either not know how to convert it or she wasn’t the one who created the file.

Considering the popularity of Open Office, I took a chance and searched the Internet to see if there were converters or a Web-based application that could read .odt files. I struck gold at Media Convert, a no cost Web-based application — so I didn’t need to install anything. It did the job beautifully. All you have to do is locate the file, select the input format and select the output format.

The service doesn’t include Publisher, but you can convert it at PDF Online. At least, everyone can view PDF files and you don’t have to ask anyone to save the Publisher file into another format. Between the two Web-based applications, you should be covered.

Updated: A friend of mine uses PrimoPDF, free downloadable software.

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