@Reiddragon Unfortunately, making proprietary degeneracy illegal won't put a stop to it, the only thing that would work if many people said no even once; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

At least the .doc format has been somewhat successfully reverse-enginerred, meaning pandoc can convert it to something useful.

Personally I just open the document in libreoffice and copy-paste all of the headings into a handcrafted LaTeX document.