Documents: tools and formats
Everything we can do with Documents files. Most of it right in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Tools
- Documents to PDFWord, Excel and PowerPoint to PDF so the layout survives the trip. Takes docx, xlsx, pptx as well as older doc, xls, ppt and open odt, ods, odp.
- Document for sendingWord, Excel or a deck becomes a PDF and is compressed right away — so the attachment fits through mail and the layout survives the trip.
Formats, and when each one fits
- DOCXsince 2007
- — The document will still be edited
- — You need contents, footnotes and styles
- — Several people work on the same file
- XLSXsince 2007
- — You need calculations, not just rows and columns
- — People read the data, not programs
- — The table will keep growing and recalculating
- PPTXsince 2007
- — The talk is still being prepared and slides will change
- — You need speaker notes
- — Colleagues build the deck together
- ODTsince 2005
- — The work happens in LibreOffice and stays there
- — Independence from a single vendor matters
- — The document is kept for the long term
Common conversions
Each page compares the formats by facts and shows compression figures we measured ourselves, not generalities.