The reason Microsoft Word files break in other apps goes deeper than you think

A perfectly ordinary Word document can make a mess of your careful formatting. You can spend an hour squeezing your resume down to exactly two pages, but the second you email it to someone who opens it in Google Docs, that last bullet point spills over onto page three. Or a report opens in LibreOffice, and a photo ends up sitting on top of the wrong paragraph. It looked perfect when you sent it.

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