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Libreoffice can help, or (as long as the formatting's not too complex) you can upload them to Google Drive, edit them, and then redownload them exporting back to .docx.
As I said in another comment about Google drive “For obvious reasons I’d like to avoid Google as I’m still migrating away but good to know I can use that as an absolute final resort”
As for Libre Office: define complex
Some thing like my class syllabuses (syllabi?) have things like like different font sizes and some formatting that you would find in a detailed class syllabus
As for my own documents it really tab in a few line to write numbered questions, go back a few line for answers, maybe a spash of holding and highlights and slap the enter key a few times in-between to make it easier to read for me
Yeah Libreoffice will probably work fine for you then. You can use that and be privacy-happy and still have Google Docs as a last resort if you need.
Yeah I think I’m going to go with libreoffice as it seems like a popular choice here and fits my use case
Stupid question though
As for opening the files do I have to open libreoffice then open the file within it or is there a way to set libreoffice as a default in windows and open from file explorer
This really isn’t a make or break question I’mhust curious
I don't windows as much anymore, but I think if you right click the file and hit 'Open with', you can set a different program as default.
Hm I rarely hit open with so maybe that’s something I missed that’s been right there but otherwise I’m sure there’s some way that the internet gods know of