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SOLVED: Convert old Equation Editor 3 document to new Office equation format for free

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Microsoft has suddenly disabled Equation Editor 3 in Office for "security reasons" and in order to force you to buy new Office 365 / 2019 they don't even offer a way to convert your equations to the new format. Another option is to buy the expensive MathType. Look here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/editing-equations-created-using-microsoft-equation-editor-08a44b8c-ae15-41a7-bc15-7239890c0cec#ID0EAADAAA=Office_2016,_2013,_or_2010

This is really really annoying but fortunately I found a way to convert to the new equation editor format for free using the great open source LibreOffice:
  1. Make sure that you have enabled Mathtype conversion in LibreOffice settings
  2. Open your Word document in LibreOffice
  3. Save your document as Microsoft Word .docx
  4. Open the converted document in Word to see that it has been converted
  5. Thank LibreOffice for offering you this great feature for free!!!
  6. "Thank" Microsoft for making your life as hard as possible and think about that when buying their products next time!!!

Hope this helps!

Anguel

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