Many times you may have to open the openoffice documents (.odt) in microsoft office. To do so, you will have to install the SUN ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office and then you would be able to open the open officie documents in microsoft office.

– Install Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office.
– Open ODT document using File > Open, or by double-clicking the ODT file and when prompted for the application to open it with, choose Word.