OpenDocument support

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Will AbiWord use Open Document as its default export format?

The question is more complicated than it seems but the short answer is unfortunately: No. See this mailing list post for a good summary of why AbiWord is unlikely to ever use that format by default.

Will AbiWord support the Open Document?

Yes. There's currently decent import support for OpenDocument. We also recommend Rich Text format as the best way to share documents with other Word Processing software.