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by depressedpanda 1952 days ago
> For those situations where someone emails me an Excel or Word file that they would like my edits in, and I'm simply not in the position to extoll the virtues of open formats or coach them in Markdown or LaTeX, I have a Windows VM and office.

My solution to this is that if someone sends me something that can only be opened in Word or Excel, they don't want me to look at it.