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I’d like to process some Microsoft Word documents on my android tab. Do you have any recommendations on FOSS word editors that work with .doc and .docx on android?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

First off, convert them to ODF, to not get nasty surprises and compatibility problems. MS OOXML is only a pseudo-standard and kept incompatible to competitors on purpose.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Done and done 👌 thanks! 😊

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe consider Collabora Office...

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't work for some reason. Now I'm guessing the files were read-only. But then again, LibreOffice opened them without issues on my Linux rig a few minutes ago...

[–] fatur0000new@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Open your file with Collabora Office. It will makes your file writable. If you open your file without Collabora Office (example: file manager), your file will be read-only because Collabora Office doesn't have permission

I am sorry if my english is bad.

[–] Kopeshan@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice! Thanks! As a last resort, I'm considering X11 + LibreOffice on Termux.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Had no idea you can setup a full DE & display server on Termux, must be clunky but really cool

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's pretty sweet! There's even a whole sub over at Reddit. But be warned: I once asked politely why they insist on ricing their termux instances - expecting some sincere replies - and I got bullied out of there faster than the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run...

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why? People above ricing now? 🤣

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Think about what group of people a word based on "rice" targets?

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm really not deep enough into that culture to understand what you mean. Either that, or it's that I'm a non native speaker? 😅 Please explain. 🙏 Is it not just a nerdy way of saying "making a Linux desktop environment look fancy"?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"ricing" comes from people "tricking out" Japanese cars by customizing them. I think most people don't think it's saying anything negative about Asians but some people take it that way. I think one similar term that sounds much worse is when people call those same Japanese cars "rice burners". That one sounds derogatory/racist to me

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In climbing, we use carabiners. It used to be common to say 'biner or 'biners for short. But my community stopped saying it that way because we were told that it sounded to close to a derogatory term (beaners) that I had never even heard of before.

So to try to be more inclusive, we trained ourselves to not say something that sounded offensive, even though none of us meant it that way. It really isn't that much to ask IMO to use neutral terms when so many exist.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

'beaner' is literally a racial slur that I instantly recognized as sounding exactly like what you wrote. Doesn't matter if you've heard of it.

I'm not sure why you're here trying to scold me for this. I explained what you meant and expressed understanding of it.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You get it -- the person above you did not. Apologies if it sounded targeted to you. I was trying to add on to the conversation for the benefit of anyone reading it.

Intent doesn't matter -- impact does. I still have never heard of "beaner" outside of the climbing context but it doesn't matter -- it is recognizable to others and that is enough. Again, I know you get it. But not everyone does, and I'm trying to give an example of the time I learned this.

A lot of people have never heard of ricer outside of the car/Linux context.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I kinda am on the same page as you but I do think modern judginess in contexts like this can get to be too much. Practically none of the language changes proposed really bother me, after at least a little time to think about them, I just get a little annoyed when some of the more benign ones seem to be pushed as similar to the other more terrible ones. An example would be "master bedroom". Basically no one would ever naturally think of that as racist or of a racist origin, though it probably is a relic of the slavery era. So while I think it's good to try and move away from the term, if someone told me I shouldn't say it in conversation, I wouldn't find it helpful and I would find it annoying. I think there should be priorities because people do have limited brain space for new replacement terms. I could probably list 20 words that have become unusable in my lifetime so far, and I have no issue with basically all of them, but if every time I say one of the more engrained, less harmful ones, I'm told I shouldn't say it, my human reaction is to get annoyed. If you had approached it a little more softly here I don't think I'd mind at all. Like "Just so you know, this term has origins in being derogatory to Asians" for example. Starting off with "don't say that" without explanation hits much differently imo. So it's partially about priorities and partially about approach for me.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get that. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Yeah master bedroom is a great example -- not as bad as master/slave terminology on networked equipment, but still probably something to change in the long term. But if someone jumped on it in conversation I might get annoyed too.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I appreciate this response. I wish more online interactions with slight disagreements could go exactly like this!

[–] bmpvy@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

on F-Droid there is Librera FD for android

can read pdf mobi epub doc docx rtf and a lot of other

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

libreoffice under termux + termux-x11 was the best solution i could find in 2025, actually worked really well. but it could be a bit tedious to use if you're not familiar with *nix stuff.

i think the termux repo didn't ship libreoffice and i had to use proot distro debian, but i may be misremembering.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Yep, that still seems to be the case.

[–] Joker_1902@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Nah, tried it, but alas... I just went home and did it with LibreOffice on my Linux rig.

I was looking for something similar late last year. I dare say there is no good and FOSS solution right now on Android.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

As well as LibreOffice

Collabora Office (Based on LibreOffice)

and

OpenDocument

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thanks! Unfortunately, neither were able to open my .docx files.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recommend moving to .odt and such, Microsoft altered the supposed-to-be-standardised formats they use, probably to lock people into their ecosystem. You could instead select all and copy from the docx into a fresh .odt, and fix the formatting differences.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm on my way home now to do this on my Linux rig. Ugh... Would've been nice to be able to do it from my tab at the cafe, but, we can't have it all, I guess 🤣

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I thought Collabaro would for sure.

I don't really know these, but..

Only Office

AndroOpenOffice

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Can confirm Only Office has worked well for me