Text Features Supported on OpenDocument Export

Characters

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Western Languages Yes    
East European Languages Yes    
East Asian Languages Yes    
Right to Left Languages Yes    
Carriage Return (not a Paragraph Break) Yes    
Non-Breaking Space Yes    
Non-Breaking Hyphen Yes    
Soft Hyphen Yes This type of hyphen is referred to as an “Optional Hyphen” in Microsoft Word documents.  
Symbol Yes    
Tab Yes    

Breaks

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Line Break Yes    
Line Break Clear Type Yes    
Page Break Yes    
Column Break Yes    

General Formatting

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Character Style Yes There is an increase in the number of styles after you save the document in ODT format. This is because all formatting in ODF is style based.  
Color Yes    
East Asian Typography N/A    
Highlight Color Yes The highlight color is exported to the character background color on export.  
Language Yes    
Do Not Check Spelling or Grammar N/A    
Border N/A    
Shading Yes Textured fills are saved as solid fills to ODT.  

Font

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Font Yes    

Underline

Some underline types appear different when saved to ODT.

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Underline Type Yes    
Underline Color Yes    

Text Effects

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Animated Effect Yes    
Double Strikethrough Yes    
Strikethrough Yes    
Subscript/Superscript Yes    
Shadow Yes    
Outline Yes    
Emboss Yes    
Imprint (Engrave) Yes    
Small Caps Yes    
All Caps Yes    
Hidden Text Yes ODT also provides an extra type of “hidden” text through the conditional text feature. This is a kind of like an IF field in a Word document.

Currently, this special feature is unsupported in ODT import and export.
 
Special Hidden N/A    
Web Hidden N/A    

Character Spacing

Kerning and Snap to Grid are not saved to ODT.

Feature Supported Comment See Also
Scale Yes    
Expanded/Compressed Yes    
Vertical Position Yes