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Are people regularly opening Microsoft Office documents? I don't think I've touched one since I was at school, which I finished in 2012.
Most people with jobs do have to open office documents frequently.
Yes?
Yes, but I understand what you mean. So many business and schools have switched entirely to Google Docs and similar.
I joined the cybersecurity club at my school and they used word or pdf for submissions. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to get code blocks and proper formating working on either but it didn't work. I gave up and just tool a scrolling screenshot of my blog and added a link in the docx file.
(And yes, I tried pandoc. My blog uses quarto, a static site generator based on pandoc markdown, and it uses pandoc. I tried to generate word and pdf using it and they looked awful.)