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Solution: email who sent you the file "hi, my Microsoft word 2011 can't open the file. Can you send it back saved (insert format you can open)"



I see that as a workaround rather than a solution. Solutions solve problems.


It will draw more attention to the core of the problem: people using Microsoft products deliberately breaking standards for lockin reasons





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