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>Anyways, my point is, the reason people think they can require Office Documents is because everyone will just jump and buy it. If we didn't buy office, no one would HAVE to buy office and we could actually use a real standard.

No argument with that! Except, alas, life just isn't that way. The mighty MS marketing machine is excellent at selling Office. I'll bet, in fact, that there are more systems with ONLY office installed than there are with other packaged products installed. Once you've bought Office, you are going to use it. And if you bought it mainly for EXCEL and ACCESS, you are still going to use Word because it there and because everyone else uses Word too.