Maybe consider Collabora Office...
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Didn't work for some reason. Now I'm guessing the files were read-only. But then again, LibreOffice opened them without issues on my Linux rig a few minutes ago...
what about only office?
Nah, tried it, but alas... I just went home and did it with LibreOffice on my Linux rig.
First off, convert them to ODF, to not get nasty surprises and compatibility problems. MS OOXML is only a pseudo-standard and kept incompatible to competitors on purpose.
Done and done 👌 thanks! 😊
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https://f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice
Editing is experimental though.
Nice! Thanks! As a last resort, I'm considering X11 + LibreOffice on Termux.
Had no idea you can setup a full DE & display server on Termux, must be clunky but really cool
Yeah, it's pretty sweet! There's even a whole sub over at Reddit. But be warned: I once asked politely why they insist on ricing their termux instances - expecting some sincere replies - and I got bullied out of there faster than the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run...
Maybe dontnsay ricing
Why? People above ricing now? 🤣
Think about what group of people a word based on "rice" targets?
I'm really not deep enough into that culture to understand what you mean. Either that, or it's that I'm a non native speaker? 😅 Please explain. 🙏 Is it not just a nerdy way of saying "making a Linux desktop environment look fancy"?
"ricing" comes from people "tricking out" Japanese cars by customizing them. I think most people don't think it's saying anything negative about Asians but some people take it that way. I think one similar term that sounds much worse is when people call those same Japanese cars "rice burners". That one sounds derogatory/racist to me
libreoffice under termux + termux-x11 was the best solution i could find in 2025, actually worked really well. but it could be a bit tedious to use if you're not familiar with *nix stuff.
i think the termux repo didn't ship libreoffice and i had to use proot distro debian, but i may be misremembering.
Yep, that still seems to be the case.
I was looking for something similar late last year. I dare say there is no good and FOSS solution right now on Android.
Thanks! Unfortunately, neither were able to open my .docx files.
I recommend moving to .odt and such, Microsoft altered the supposed-to-be-standardised formats they use, probably to lock people into their ecosystem. You could instead select all and copy from the docx into a fresh .odt, and fix the formatting differences.
Yeah, I'm on my way home now to do this on my Linux rig. Ugh... Would've been nice to be able to do it from my tab at the cafe, but, we can't have it all, I guess 🤣
Can confirm Only Office has worked well for me