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Do any of you have M$ Word running in present form? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My old man has a bunch of .dox stuff saved. He has complicated large files saved that are not supported by any of the FOSS conversion tools. I've tried Libre office, Abi Word, and every command line tool and converter I can find. These are entire book sized files.

I have a W10 machine with Word. Is extracting the .exe and running it with wine feasible without making an epic mess or massive project of this?

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[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying, and I can appreciate your overall concerns as I face the same dilemma with my aging relatives.

Just to confirm, have you opened these files in Word yourself (or witnessed them being opened), to verify they are in fact valid documents? if valid, are they meant to be in English?

It wouldn't be the first time I've seen "other" files renamed with an incorrect file extension.