When people send stuff to my home computer, I reject Word attachments by
quoting Tim Berners-Lee and requesting PDFs. At work, I always save
documents as OpenDocument Text.
Interestingly, ODT files are smaller, and it's easier to spot them in a
pile of Word documents because of the file type
If you must use your own computer for college/work, you should complain,
explaining the free software philosophy, that using proprietary software is
against your values, and suggesting to achieve a similar work using free
software. At college, that will be easier: professors usually have a
