Should I convert to ODT or ODS from an Excel workbook?

ODT when the destination is a document - a report, a submission, prose around tables. ODS when you need a working spreadsheet in LibreOffice with formulas alive; Calc opens XLSX directly and saves ODS natively. The two targets serve different ends.

What do the tables look like in LibreOffice Writer?

Ordinary Writer tables carrying the cell values and basic formatting - editable, restylable, and printable like any document table. Calculations do not accompany them; the numbers are as-of-conversion snapshots.

Why would a workflow require ODT instead of XLSX?

Document-centric pipelines: manuscript systems, documentation archives, and organisations standardised on OpenDocument. They expect prose files, and an ODT presents the data as part of a document rather than as a raw workbook.

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Take an Excel XLSX workbook into ODT, producing a LibreOffice Writer text document with your sheet laid out as editable tables. It suits reporting rather than analysis: the tables are static Writer objects, and the calculations stay behind in Excel.

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Why convert XLSX to ODT?

Compose LibreOffice reports around current Excel figures - Writer opens ODT natively with no import filter.
Fold spreadsheet extracts into longer documents such as manuals, theses, and policy papers.
Keep an open-standard, human-readable record of the numbers alongside the working workbook.

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