That's fascinating. Not having used Word format documents is a little like never using a PDF.
Actually not at all "fascinating",i'd say "Sad" If a person has actually lived in the real world, had a real job , a real life, etc etc they would never make a statements like "i've never used a word document file" and to brag about it is even more embarassing
But back to more relevant discussion...
I've used OOO since ver 1 and the versions the past couple of years give very few, if any format errors when loading/saving m$ docs afaik.
@ BootDisk
Can you please state who it is this person from phase 5 they talked to? There are only 3 people in the world (maybe 4) that have that data, and by stating a number like $200k sounds like "dont bother me"