Agreed. The only caveat I'd offer is, for MS Word specifically, you can have: (1) Large complex documents (i.e. lots of links/references, sections) OR (2) Many

Agreed. The only caveat I'd offer is, for MS Word specifically, you can have: (1) Large complex documents (i.e. lots of links/references, sections) OR (2) Many collaborators. Pick ONE. If you must have both of these, leave track changes off, and use highlights and comments. I've been in the unfortunate position of being next to a deadline, where the word document was the key deliverable. And then having that document become corrupted. Fairly certain it was a confluence of the above factors that caused it. If the doc is starting to take 30 seconds or more to just scroll down or edit one character, that's your first warning bell. We tried opening in Word Online, Word Mac, Word Windows and even LibreOffice. No dice. What worked in the end? A smart chap on our team thought to try importing the doc into Google Docs, and then exporting it again...