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My silly reason is when it comes down to business the ms office suite works the best out of any office suite.
Sure that is because Microsoft spends more time making it incompatible with any other editors than actually developing decent software but that doesn’t change the fact that I can’t trust people on the other end of the email to perform even one step of troubleshooting if the document doesn’t open for them on the first try.
ODF support is in MS Office as well, but if you want to be extra sure you can export as .doc from any office suite (Libreoffice should also tell you if a feature you are using can't be exported).
That's the thing, Microsoft intentionally breaks formatting of files exported from libreoffice.
Hmmm, don't Libreoffice devs test it with actual MS Office instead of guesstimating the format?
Another thing that helps is baking in the fonts or using metric compatibles to MS ones.
Oh man, Teams +Outlook + Office 365 + onedrive +Copilot?
So good for office shit. So bad for hood practices.
"Hey copilot I'm pretty sure I got an email asking if I had an SOP on X. Can you find that email and the SOP?"
"Copilot, using the recording of the teams meeting 'Training from Vendor X' and my notes on 'Tool Y' can you compile that into a FAQ sheet for us?"
Sure it misses stuff and is only so good because none of the data is private, but man that's 90% of my work load for SOP making. Worth the $400 a year corporate pays for it.
Come back after a vacation. Asked for all emails that I had actions in. Handled those. Later started going though my emails manually and discovered an important email with “ACTION NEEDED” and work someone directly mentioned me and the action I needed to do and a deadline. Don’t trust it that much now.