Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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TLDR: can I edit docx files on word without a subscription and if not what are some apps that can allow me to do so

Like the title says I need the ability to edit .docx for college (sadly other file formats aren’t accepted AFAIK) and my Microsoft 365 subscription is expiring and will not be renewed thanks to you lovely people getting me on the Proton family of software and obsidian for note taking.

However i created a .docx file today and and got a popup in word saying my Microsoft subscription is expiring soon (in march I believe) and that I would lose many feature.

This scary message wasn’t very helpful as to what features id lose (probably a lot of them I don’t even use) but the internet has not been helpful in telling me if I can still view and edit all my docx files that I have been collecting and creating over the years and have migrated to my proton drive

If I won’t be able to access docx files in word what are some apps that can open them from my proton drive (this is a hard requirement for me).

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Doesn't OpenOffice have the ability to edit Office files?
It's been awhile, I could be wrong.

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

OpenOffice has been essentially a dead project for a long, long, long time. LibreOffice is its successor.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

openoffice is an asf project (apache. same organization that does the apache web server and many other projects); the code and project was donated to them by oracle. it still exists, its development cycle is just a tad slower than most would like.

libreoffice was forked off of openoffice when it was still an oracle project (they having acquired it when they bought sun microsystems).

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I wouldn’t know lol but I’m assuming it does since someone else recommended it

As for now tho I’m gonna check out libreoffice and then have open office as a back up now that more than 1 person is recommending it

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I think they recommended Only Office, not Open Office.

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