To play devil's advocate, ODF is (a) open, and (b) native in Word. For that matter, docx is an ISO standard. On the other side, I perpetually have to unformat

To play devil's advocate, ODF is (a) open, and (b) native in Word. For that matter, docx is an ISO standard. On the other side, I perpetually have to unformat my hard-wrapped lines, before I paste plain text into eg an email...