Thread:AlteOgre/@comment-28052798-20160605101415/@comment-25101690-20160609085534

Ok, I just tried to edit an MS Office document (.docx) using nothing but 7zip and Notepad++. Now I know how to insert normal text, line breaks, and page breaks. I was also able to remove a few obviously uneccessary XML tags, reducing the size of the document by ~500 bytes (1.5% of the total size excluding embedded images). There is still a lot of information that cannot be removed safely, such as themes, styles, and display settings. I really hate the Office XML format family, since HTML documents are much cleaner and at the same time much more powerful.