The Open Document Format (ODF) is a format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, databases, presentations and word-processing documents. Open Document is a free and open format. Office suite applications, as always, need a file format that is designed to organize the data when it moves away from the application. People with different machines in different places should be able to open and edit the data in a file. ODF offers an open alternative to the formats used by all of the existing Office application versions for text, spreadsheet, presentation, and other kinds of documents.
