Emacs, the lightweight markup format of your choice (org-mode for me), and Pandoc do a pretty good job of creating vanilla Word documents that don't have "weird

Emacs, the lightweight markup format of your choice (org-mode for me), and Pandoc do a pretty good job of creating vanilla Word documents that don't have "weird" formatting embedded. Sadly, it's a one-way trip, and collaborators usually can't be talked into adopting this arcane way of working. But the emacs keybindings work flawlessly :-)