It would be very nice to be able to add microsoft word documents (.docx) to an obsedian vault, similar to how you can add PDF files.
I have a ton of .DOCX files that would be difficult to convert to markdown, and many which I would prefer keeping as DOCX.
I imagine there are probably a lot of people like me in this regard…
you can already. Configure Obsidian to detect all files in settings
That doesn’t display the contents of the file. That just links to the file and shows it in the file system. I imagine the intent of this FR is to actually display the contents of the file.
@elriba filling out more details about what you mean would help clarify the request.
Further, you didn’t fill out “Current workaround”. There are existing plugins Docxer, Office Reader, Vault Lens, docxidian, Native PowerPoint Doc Editor, and possibly more. Search “docx” in the plugins directory to see. (I haven’t tested any of these.)
I know this isn’t the exact answer you want - I have to deal with a lot of docx stuff too, I ended up essentially just installing Pandoc and batch converting all my older docs to md. This doesn’t solve the ‘need in word because other people need access through onedrive/sharepoint’ - for those, I still convert my official copy to a MD version in my vault so I have a local copy I keep updated with some automation, then I use Writage in word to be able to work in MD/Obsidian, then copy → paste md in word (with the writage plugin). It is absolutely a pain in the butt, and not perfect, but it’s the best I got so far.
Essentially, whenever I need to work on a doc in Sharepoint/work stuff, I open it in word, select all and copy as MD then paste it onto my obsidian version (copilot automation helps here too if you have your pipeline and stuff setup so you can skip that step)
You can also Try Microsoft’s own MarkItDown, built exactly for this - automation tooling for LLM and others to convert stuff with python In batch : GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. · GitHub