TXT to ODT

The converter turns text into an ODT file: type it into the field or open a TXT file, press "Download ODT" and get an OpenDocument document that opens in LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and online editors. The settings show the entire future look of the page: font, size, sheet, margins.

How text goes into the document

Each line of text becomes a separate paragraph, and an empty line turns into an empty paragraph, so line breaks are preserved. Repeated spaces, indentation at the start of a line, and tabs pass into the document as is. The page break character \f works the same way: wherever it appears, the document starts a new page.

Splitting into paragraphs is not always what you need. If you want continuous text with no gaps between lines, remove the empty lines before converting: each of them will become its own empty paragraph.

The page reads an opened file in the encoding it detects on its own. If text came out garbled, pick UTF-8, Windows-1251, KOI8-R, or DOS 866 manually in the "File encoding" field.

The font is not stored in the document

Only the font name is written into the ODT file; the font itself is not embedded. When the document is opened on a machine without that font, the editor substitutes its own: the text stays readable but looks different. In PDF the font is embedded in the file itself; you can build such a document with the TXT to PDF converter.

The "Font" list offers six choices: PT Sans, Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Georgia, and Verdana. Only the name is remembered. If the document will travel to someone else's computer, pick a font from the list that is already installed there.

Page settings

The "Sheet" field offers A4, A5, and Letter; the sheet can be set upright or sideways. Margins are set with a single number: 10, 15, 20, or 25 mm on all four sides. Font size runs from 10 to 16, and line spacing can be single, 1.15, 1.5, or double.

All these parameters are written as document styles. After conversion you can change them in the editor without redoing anything. If the task is the reverse and you need to pull text out of a finished document, use the ODT to TXT converter.