Apache OpenOffice colour palettes and style elements
File type: Settings, options, themes or skins file
A .soc file is a colour-palette file used by Apache OpenOffice and OpenOffice.org.
It stores colour definitions and related style elements used by the office suite.
Found 2 different file type records with the same soc filename suffix.
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: October 12, 2026
The .soc file extension is associated with OpenOffice.org and its successor, Apache OpenOffice. These files provide colour palettes that can be used by the suite's applications.
A palette file contains colour information and related style elements. It is a configuration resource rather than a normal OpenOffice document, and it helps define the colours available when creating or formatting content.
Apache OpenOffice is available on multiple desktop platforms.
Apache OpenOffice normally reads .soc files as palette resources rather than opening them as ordinary documents. The file can also be inspected or edited with a plain-text or XML-aware editor. Make a backup before changing a palette file used by Apache OpenOffice.
A .soc file is not normally converted to another document format. It is a palette resource, so conversion is generally unnecessary.
To use the colours elsewhere, recreate the palette in the target application's palette format using the colour values stored in the file. Apache OpenOffice can continue to use the original file as its palette resource.
Software apps that manage or store settings in soc files:
Multiplatform
File type category:
Configuration file
Date updated: November 15, 2017
The soc file extension is also used for Sonic Object configuration files. SOCs are just text files, they may be created by simply loading Notepad or a similar text editor, and saving the file with the extension .soc.
SOC is a basic "language" for addons and such to SRB2 that allow the modder to change many things from objects, to behaviors, to visuals and such like that
The soc extension file are not meant to be opened manually by the user.
Probably not meant to be converted.
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