TLDR: can I edit docx files on word without a subscription and if not what are some apps that can allow me to do so

Like the title says I need the ability to edit .docx for college (sadly other file formats aren’t accepted AFAIK) and my Microsoft 365 subscription is expiring and will not be renewed thanks to you lovely people getting me on the Proton family of software and obsidian for note taking.

However i created a .docx file today and and got a popup in word saying my Microsoft subscription is expiring soon (in march I believe) and that I would lose many feature.

This scary message wasn’t very helpful as to what features id lose (probably a lot of them I don’t even use) but the internet has not been helpful in telling me if I can still view and edit all my docx files that I have been collecting and creating over the years and have migrated to my proton drive

If I won’t be able to access docx files in word what are some apps that can open them from my proton drive (this is a hard requirement for me).

    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yeah another commentor suggested it but said it gets funky with formatting but I’m definitely gonna check it out

      Also is this it. Just wanna make sure before I download the first libreoffice I see lol

      • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        10 months ago

        Yes. That’s it. Yes, there can be some problems with formatting. The most common one, though, is fonts. Try it out and see how it goes.

        Also, you can open it in Google Drive. But that’s not privacy respecting

        • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Oh yep they did I just have been writing the wrong thing in all these comments WHOOPS