Office Depot CFO Patricia McKay to Speak at Merrill Lynch Retailing Leaders Conference

The presentation will take place at The Pierre Hotel, 2 East 61st Street, New York, NY at 8:40 a.m. To listen via web cast, please visit Office Depot's Investor Relations web site athttp://investor.officedepot.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=odp.

If you would like to register to attend the conference, pleasecontact your Merrill Lynch salesperson for additional information.

About Office Depot

With annual sales of over $14 billion, Office Depot provides moreoffice products and services to more customers in more countries thanany other company. Incorporated in 1986 and headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, Office Depot conducts business in 22 countries and employs 47,000 people worldwide. The Company operates under the Office Depot(R), Viking Office Products(R), and Viking Direct(R) brand names.

Office Depot is a leader in every distribution channel - fromretail stores and contract delivery to catalogs and e-commerce. Withover $3.8 billion of sales, the Company is one of the world's largeste-commerce retailers. As of December 31, 2005, Office Depot had 1,047 retail stores in North America. Internationally, the Company conducts wholly-owned operations in 14 countries, and operates retail stores under joint venture and license arrangements in another six countries.

The company's common stock is listed on the New York StockExchange under the symbol ODP and is included in the S&P 500 Index.

Additional press information can be found at:http://mediarelations.officedepot.com. Broadcast quality B-Roll/Video(digital or tape) is available at www.thenewsmarket.com/officedepot.Registration and video are free to the media.