[vxNsr]

People use word processors to write documents that can be easily edited by multiple people while still being easily readable the whole time.

I'd be interested to know what product you use to compose your documents in.

[kqr]

In the absence of forced company policy, my experience of word processors have generally been one of rather poor compatibility. I assume company policies are what helps people interact through word processors?

I personally like Org to compose the copy of a document. It's a plain text format that makes sense to a lot of people, the reference implementation has most of the powerful features I'd miss from word processors, and it's reasonably easy to script missing advanced features.

[arminiusreturns]

I second emacs org mode. I've started to really buy into the everything is text nix philosophy. I use it for so much, my website skeletons are exported to html from org, my data science workbooks are org, my resume is org I export to latex, and so on.

I also use libreoffice, but mostly only when forced to deal with docs or PowerPoint etc. I think libreoffice does a lot of things right and am glad to have their wysiwyg when I don't feel like thinking.

Also, I think it's shameful so many professors require docx..