How do you convert an OTD file to a document readable in Word?

Question

A friend typed up an essay for me and sent it to me by e-mail as an OTD file. In other words the file reads: essay.odt
I have tried opening it in Word but it comes up with strange characters. It gives me the option of several languages and each one that I click on gives me similar strange characters. How can I read the essay?

Answer 1

Your friend uses Open Office and .otd is the native file format used by OO.

They didn't save the file as a Word document.

Ask them to "Save As" a Word document and re-send.