Can Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet read and write in OpenOffice Calc?

I don't have Excel, and have no plans to get it. OpenOffice suits me fine. I was just wondering if I could get out of having to continue to make files available in both OpenOffice format (.ods) and Excel format (.xls), which I have been doing using OpenOffice.It is an easy conversion from OpenOffice (.ods) to Excel (.xls), using OpenOffice; it's just an extra step that I would like to avoid.

But since Microsoft is chauvinistic and refuses to be reciprocal, I guess I will have to continue supplying files in both formats, using OpenOffice.

As far as I know, I cannot. However, OpenOffice is able to save as xls files. If you use the 'save as' functionality in openoffice, then you can easilly export it to a format with which you can edit via Excel.

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