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tssva on June 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Even the creator of the defacto standard document format doesn't ship the ability to read it out of the box. Neither does the other major desktop operating system vendor.

glowingly on June 3, 2023 [–]

Wordpad has read docx files for a while now.

edit: I just checked my Win11 VM, and Wordpad is included by default. It also reads and writes docx and odt.

tssva on June 3, 2023 | [–]

WordPad only supports limited capabilities of the docx format.

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