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by alexvoda 1550 days ago
What functionality do they rely so heavily in Office that makes it irreplaceable? Some VBA monstrosity? Or is it just muscle memory?
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I bet it's just the ability to edit docx files that third parties send over, without losing any details/features/fidelity or the markup going to shit. Esp docx files that are terrible turds internally (the ones with layers and layers of conflicting formatting settings, hit enter somewhere and everything changes etc) is hard to import into eg Google Docs without the internal turdness showing on the outside.