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?
I can’t comment on how many documents you have, but there’s a free version of Office 365
free is not as in freedom from stalkerware, and there is only a 1 month blank-check impossibscribe extortion type trial scam.
If you’re already thinking of extracting/attempting to run a desktop version of Office, you may as well save yourself the effort if you can and give the free online version a try. You’ll be using a proprietary piece of software either way.
I’m looking at trying to convert a file type that Linux doesn’t presently have a capability of opening. What is this toxic nonsense? Seriously, I’m trying to get my ignorant old man on FOSS. I don’t give a * about m$. I also think evangelical nonsense is worse than m$, so curb that nonsense please. This isn’t some Arch forum.