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RTF is supported by the older StarOffice and is damned near universally accepted. Tweaking the formatting after importing is vastly more efficient than typing it in all over again. And there's a good chance, given that it was a school assignment, that no reformatting would have been required.

Another option would have been to export it to an older Word format (this is also supported by StarOffice versions at least back to version 5). The big mistake here on the part of the user was in not understanding anything about the portability of the many formats that were available to him. This is one thing that should be taught in any computer literacy class. Unfortunately, it's taught in practically none of them, as they simply assume homogeneity of the platform and the tools.
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