Consider paste linking pictures in Word. My ultimate word processing environment would be an empty web page where you can type Markdown and have the UX adapt t

Consider paste linking pictures in Word. My ultimate word processing environment would be an empty web page where you can type Markdown and have the UX adapt to what you are typing, much like entering comments on StackOverflow. When you are done you could apply global styles or even page templates without changing the semantic content. You could even go back to authoring in the utf8-based language if you preferred. Outline view in Word is useful, section navigation (and section styles) in OpenOffice are useful. Text to table would be great if it actually worked.