Linux reads and writes files in any Windows format, but you have to generally know which exact file format you want and you have to use the "Save As" function not just the simple Save. Remember, Linux CAN do this if told to, but it will automatically use .ODF format on a simple Save unless you reset your system default format to do something else.
In my house all the machines are set to use the default format for whatever my wife currently uses at school, and we do a lot of translating of old file formats as some of her stuff goes back through like 7 generations of forced Mickey Word format "upgrade" forced willy nilly changes.
She thinks it was clever of me, that she can open up some moldy old shite from one of her buddies that they can't even read anymore on any of the equipment the college owns and my big Mint box opens it and lays it back down in their current MS Word format so they can all use it again
--- its plumb magical, it is .....It is funny, Libre Office can open and save files in ANY of the many many many file types MS frog marched the world through at gun point (forcing everybody to upgrade multiple times as they went for over $80 a seat each time). MS Office itself cannot do that once they roll like 2 revisions past it --- Mickey then sells a translator program for each level for big $$$$ and expects you to pay them to use the files written by their old stuff THAT YOU PAID FOR on your new stuff THAT YOU PAID FOR. Mickey is a little greedy, sometimes.
Libre Office is a great tool for folks who get files sent to them from all over the world as it can handle most all of them (and translate the files between them too).
I learned originally about the old FOSS Open Office software 20 years ago from an executive secretary who had it on her machine to use as a file translator for her boss who got files from people scattered all over the world and he expected her to be able to "handle it for him".
So, remember "Save As" and use it when dealing with other people's stuff that you plan to send back to them. You have to use Save As when dealing with Windows files that you plan to read again on a Windows machine.
Or else tell your Mint Linux box to do it automatically for you .....https://www.howtogeek.com/281166/how-to-change-the-default-file-format-in-lib... Detailed "how to" on changing your default save format in Libre Office
And for those who remember Open Office, here is what finally happened to it once Oracle got done screwing
everybody in the world over about it. This is the same story as to what happened to Star Office, Star Office was the predecessor to Open Office and Oracle did them at the same time they did Open Office.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openoffice-is-dead-long-live-libreoffice/
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