"LibreOffice Writer can open documents in almost any word processor file format, and save back into almost any other. As of late last month, this includes Markdown. Specifically, LibreOffice 26.2 supports the version called CommonMark."

"As we have said before, even if you're perfectly happy with MS Office, it's worth having LibreOffice installed just in case. In this vulture's fairly extensive experience, it's a lot better at opening corrupted Office files than Office itself. You can try to open a damaged file that crashes the Microsoft apps, and there's a good chance that LibreOffice will open it, even if with some warnings, and let you recover some or all of your data and save it in a fresh, undamaged file. This can be a life-saver – or at least an employment-saver – in a crisis. Now the latest LibreOffice 26.2.1 can also turn a Word document into clean simple Markdown – or turn Markdown into a clean, formatted Word document – in just a couple of clicks."

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