[libreoffice-users] Thank goodness for opening legacy formats

Today I downloaded a 2006-ish C++ teacher's guide saved using the .sxw 
file format.

The format shows OpenOffice.org 1.0 text document, in Caja file manager 
[Ubuntu MATE].

I remember using OOo 1.x and the only issues were not MS Office 97-2003 
formats were not supported.  I loved it when I was able to read/write 
.doc files, since I was transitioning from Windows to Linux and MSO 2003 
to a free open-source office suite.

Today was the first time in 7 or 8 years that I had to open a .sxw 
file.  Thank goodness LO still have support with those file formats.  
MSO no longer supports their early file formats, so I had to make sure I 
re-saved all my early Word, WordPerfect, etc. documents to the more 
"modern" formats [Word 95 floppy era].

I never thought I would find/download .sxw files again.

To be honest, I lost a lot of documents because I could not find a 
working copy of the word processor that I created them with - i.e. 
before or early Windows software.



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