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by type0 2837 days ago
> What Word features am I missing out on?

All those pesky macros that would allow your computer to be infected

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You mean like those curl url | sh advices?
You can choose to install malware on any system you control, or be tricked into doing so.
Since around 2007 that those pesky macros only run if the user takes the same effort as typing curl | sh.
"Do you want your document to work yes/no?" is a lot more likely to trick people than asking them to input a console command.
The actual message asks if the user wants to enable macros, while stating it is dangerous to enable them for unknown documents.

Not seen Word in a while I guess.