[cube00]

> send them back an ODT

The formatting goes wonky or the macros stop working and you get the blame for doing something "weird" to the document everyone else managed to pass around just fine.

As much as you're doing the right thing by using open formats, you still end up looking like the incompetent employee. No good deed goes unpunished.

[inigyou]

> employee

Oh well that changes things. Use whatever your boss tells you to use, they're the one paying for it.

[cube00]

> Oh well that changes things.

It's the same for any case where someone sends you something and wants it sent back with changes.

If you screw up their files it's never going to go well for you (family, friends, volunteer groups).

Nobody will ever thank you for messing up their work because it's now saved in an open format.

If they end up using a feature that triggers the format nag screen they'll likely end up saving it back into the native Microsoft format anyway.

[frollogaston]

Or dealing with any professional service that isn't your day job. Like oh you need to fill out some legal documents, the fields use something proprietary in Word that they can't just convert to PDF...