No Export/Save As option at all in Collabora Office 26.04 desktop, macOS (only .odt saves work)

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Collabora Office Version 26.04.2.4 (dfcdd2f0c7), running on macOS Tahoe 26.6.2.

In Writer, there’s no File → Save As, and no File → Export or Download As either — File only shows a plain Save command, which writes to .odt regardless of the original file’s format. I haven’t been able to find any menu path to export or save as .docx, or to any other format.

On macOS Tahoe with 226.04.2.4 looks like there’s no option to save to any format except .odt.

Is this a known issue with 26.04 on macOS?

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Hi @paulcoholic, welcome to the forum, and thanks for the detailed report — version, git hash, and macOS version all included, that helps a lot!

Two quick questions to help us pin it down:

  1. If you open a document and look at the in-app UI (the File tab in the tabbed toolbar, or the menu inside the document window) rather than the macOS menu bar at the top of the screen — do you see any Export / Download options there?
  2. Did you install from the Mac App Store or from a direct download from collabora.com? (The App Store build is sandboxed, so it’s useful to know which one shows this.)

Either way, this deserves a bug report — would you be up for filing one at Issues · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub with the same details you posted here? If not, no worries, I’m happy to file it and link back to this thread.

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Hi @darshan I downloaded it from the Mac App Store. The download link for Mac on the site opens the Mac App Store.

Yes, I do see an Export option (no “Download)” , with the accompanying multiple options for DOCX, etc. I do not recall seeing this earlier. Has there been an update since my post in August? (Sorry for the delayed reply!)

Save as still shows on one file format option (.odt.) But I am thinking now that is a feature, and not a bug? Apple Pages does similar: it only saves as .pages, but can export to other file formats (except, sadly, .odt.)

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Hi @paulcoholic, thanks for coming back to this, and no need to apologise for the delay!

You are right, this is intended for now. In the macOS app, Save As keeps the document in the format it already has. To get a DOCX, PDF or another format, use Export: it writes a copy in the format you pick and leaves your open document as it is. It is a lot like the other Mac app you mentioned. We may add a format choice to Save As later. For the moment, Export is the way to go.

One thing I would like to check, because it may still be a bug. When you saw only .odt in Save As, was the document you had open originally a .docx (or another non-ODF file), or was it a new document? For a file opened as .docx, Save As should offer .docx. If it offered .odt for a .docx file, please tell me so we can file issue on that

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It was a odt file. If I open a docx file, Save as shows as docx.

If I open a odt file (like example.odt) and change it to docx, it adds .odt to the filename, like example.docx.odt