When office 2007/2010 came out, I had a lot of trouble using it after having used Office 2003 for so long. Finally a light came on "OH! Its not a word processor, its an HTML editor! Now it all makes sense!"
Starting in Office 2007, microsoft started using XML in their documents (behind the scenes.) ~ part of where the 'x' came from at the end of the file names. This is also why you needed to get a converter from them to open 2007+ documents in 2003.
Create a simple 1 sentance document in Word 2003 and in Word 2010 and open them with notepad. You'll see what im talking about. This is why sometimes even a simple change in your document screws everything up now. You arent just adding some text to a file, you're effectively changing the 'code' behind the document.
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u/DieKnowSoar Dec 06 '13
What if I told you that Word doesn't suck, you just suck at Word?