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by shadowOfShadow 4632 days ago
try .docx since it's an open format. It's interesting to see OP and you both talk about .doc. It shows your familiarity with the details of the topic.
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Oh I meant to be more of general statement... I'd be as frustrated if it was odt if use case wouldn't warrant it.

Though docx has its own problem -- a lot of free implementations do not handle it correctly and MS implementation of OpenDocument is largely incomplete (as far as I know from 2007's implementation...) Honestly, using LibreOffice day to day with other users being MS Office users, ironically doc seems to be most complete interchangeable format with these users.

I think some of those come from ambiguity of spec so I guess there are mulple parties to be blamed.