Take a look at pandoc (https://pandoc.org/). It can convert any type to any type of document.

You may also use https://www.grindeq.com/. It's a commercial software, however there are a few free runs to test. As for me, performed pretty well.

Diriba Kejela Geleta Does not matter what conversion tool you use, you will not get the formatted and not distorted document in .docx format. You have to process and format it in word.

Abhijeet Singh

You are basically right, because formatting principles of MS Word and Latex are different eg. something like overfull hbox cannot occur in Latex, used fonts are also different (Times New Roman is not Computer Modern Roman). If we consider math formulas, there will be further differences, though Equation Editor introduced in MS Office 2007 is much more similar in its features to Latex than the old Equation Editor (prior to MS Office 2007).

However, all this doesn't mean that MS Word output will be unacceptable and will require much (if any) processing in MS Word.

It depends on the complexity of the source document.

Przemysław Kowalik

I did not say anything about the MS doc that would it need any efforts to get accepted. What I said is any oftwaare can just transform a pdf to doc format as it is.

Moreover who is to decide if its acceptable or not? The journal, isn't it? And why don't they just accept any format (pdf or tex) and why do they have submission guidelines? Because there are specific journal specific format that you have to follow. Do you agree... or?

Abhijeet Singh

Yes, I agree with you. My remarks were very general and based on my personal experience with conversion between the formats in both ways. However, I didn't restrict my remarks to meet the requirements of journals' editors but I meant any possible purposes.

Thank you all for your response.

LaTex will provide you only PDF version that can be converted by using "some other" application but sometime the conversion does not work.

You can get word file from Latex. Select the wording from Latex file and paste it into word file. It will almost converted into word file.

FIAZ AHMAD BHATTI Do you want to say copy pasting is the same thing as converting?

Yes, copy pasting is the same thing as converting

FIAZ AHMAD BHATTI

I think you either need to go through the lexicon or think what you are talking about because you are absolutely wrong.

FIAZ AHMAD BHATTI

Copy pasting and converting are entirely different things.

A simple advice: Think carefully before you write.