Using Microsoft Office and Cool Office Suite

Cool Office Suite can open and save documents in the Microsoft Office file formats, including Microsoft Office Open XML formats.

Opening a Microsoft Office File

  1. Choose File - Open. Select a Microsoft Office file in the Cool Office Suite file open dialog.

MS Office file...

...will open in Cool Office Suite module

Microsoft Word, *.doc, *.docx

Cool Office Suite Writer

Microsoft Excel, *.xls, *.xlsx

Cool Office Suite Calc

Microsoft PowerPoint, *.ppt, *.pps, *.pptx

Cool Office Suite Impress


Saving as a Microsoft Office File

  1. Choose File - Save As.

  2. In the File type box, select a Microsoft Office file format.

Saving Documents by Default in Microsoft Office Formats

  1. Choose Cool Office Suite - Preferences - Load/Save - General.

  2. In the Default file format and ODF settings area, first select a document type, then select the file type for saving.

From now on, if you save a document, the File type will be set according to your choice. Of course, you still can select another file type in the file save dialog.

Cool Office Suite - Preferences - Load/Save - VBA Properties.


If you use macros in one of the applications and want to use the same functionality in the other application, you must edit the macros. Cool Office Suite can load the macros that are contained within Microsoft Office files and you can then view and edit the macro code in the Cool Office Suite Basic IDE editor.

You can choose to preserve or delete VBA macros

Open a Microsoft Office document that contains VBA macro code. Change only the normal contents (text, cells, graphics), and do not edit the macros. Save the document as a Microsoft Office file type. Open the file in Microsoft Office, and the VBA macros will run as before.

You may delete the VBA macros from the Microsoft Office file on loading or on saving.

  1. Choose Cool Office Suite - Preferences - Load/Save - VBA Properties to set the VBA macro handling of Cool Office Suite.