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Re:Running a law firm on Free software by crabmusket on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:50PM (#50408782)
The author wrote more about Word compatibility in their 2022 post https://decoded.legal/blog/2022/10/running-a-law-firm-on-lin...

> I had wondered if I would need to switch to Word for some documents but, so far, no.

> I don’t know how many “Word documents” I’ve worked on in the last year - low hundreds, at a guess - but there has been no problem.

> Even a document with hundreds of tracked changes and comments, and multiple contributors across multiple organisations - an unusual situation for me, anyway - was fine.

> (Admittedly, it took me a while how to deal with LibreOffice Writer’s tracked changes function and comments, but that was simply user error.)

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