Like it or not, at many big companies, word docs and excel spreadsheets (and powerpoints...) get abused in incredible ways. You'll somehow end up distributing a

Like it or not, at many big companies, word docs and excel spreadsheets (and powerpoints...) get abused in incredible ways. You'll somehow end up distributing a training document in an excel spreadsheet, and then some not-so-tech-savy manager will come up with the brilliant idea of including VIDEOS in the training documents... and then it begins. Simply put, Microsoft and Adobe will cram as much crap into their fileformats (pdfs...) as they think random middle managers in large corporations want (and sadly actually use...). I've seen such things done. It hurts to get a word doc that's just full of embedded jpgs from a scan of a printed out pdf that was originally a website...