What is a .SDW file?
SDW is a StarOffice 5 word-processor document, an ancestor of OpenOffice.
- Did you know
- StarOffice was the commercial suite that became OpenOffice and then LibreOffice.
- SDW was the file of StarWriter, the word processor at the heart of StarOffice 5.
- It is built on Microsoft’s Compound File container, the OLE structure also used by legacy Word documents.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more document, ebook and publishing files: Scribus (.sla/.scd version, pages, fonts), MS Works and Windows Write, Word 97 templates (.dot), StarOffice 5.x binary docs, Shanda Bambook and Sony BBeB (.lrf/.lrx) ebooks, FrameMaker, document templates and legacy PageMaker.
- Depth of analysis
- .SDW is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SDW file
- Drag a .SDW file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.