alt Hacker NewsWhat is a good way to convert MS Office documents to markdown -- until Microsoft adds "Saves As" option to office apps.
Anything that can run locally instead of uploading potentially sensitive stuff to random websites. Would be handy on work PCs.
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The canonical answer is Pandoc.
Based on what others have suggested, I've just tried out pandoc for this, and it's produced really good results in CommonMark from some quite hideous Word documents.
You could open the doc or docx in LibreOffice 26.2 and use its Markdown export feature?
> until Microsoft adds "Saves As" option to office apps
LibreOffice also allows to convert documents via command line, so there's one more bonus.
If you like to have it integrated in Word: https://www.writage.com/features/
Copy-paste it to Obsidian.
Microsoft added markdown support to Notepad, and that went well /s
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown