Don’t let anybody down, and find out which limitations exist, instead, and how we can try to make all group members happy. Well, collaborating with a group of other writers can lead to a situation whereas one or more participants request DOCX as the output format. You may wonder why an enthusiast of Markdown and Asciidoc (like me) deals with this case. In this article we have a look at the conversion between Markdown and DOCX - the native document format of Microsoft Word that is in use since 2007. The quality of the conversion between these formats varies widely, and can lead to a lot of frustration when crossing format boundaries.

To our disadvantage, every tool comes with its own native document format as well as selection of other supported document formats.

The exact way it is done follows different paths - from using a bare text editor like Vim to graphical applications like Open/Libre Office or cloud-based services that are accessible via webbrowser like Google Docs.

Among other activities, writing and editing text documents belongs to the most common actions we use our (desktop) computers for.

How to convert a file into .doc format