So I inform all of my contacts that I use OO and to notify me if they have MSWord AND are unwilling to download OO. After all, OO is free, each person who uses OO takes $250 out of the MS pockets, minimum.
I am convinced that their lack of inclusion of OO in the MS translation lexicon is intentionally malicious. That heartburn aside, I switched to Open Office three years ago and have been much less frustrated. (Prior civilizations also had their earlier written language displaced by priesthood imposed comic-book characters.)
They are the self appointed 'priesthood' of our society, will soon have their icons (comic-book-characters) on the outside of large buildings to "inform" us peons, we will abandon the phonetic alphabet, and those marks will be our only legacy, seen by future archaeologists as the hieroglyphs of this civilization. After several frustrating months I came to the conclusion that the hundreds of ICONS they used to replace the 26 letter phonetic alphabet was a sign of the end of our civilization.