I’m having flashbacks to Word 6 for Mac, when everyone downgraded back to Word 5.1.

Only if you have installed MS Office, it was one of the first thing which I deleted, among with other MS Bloatware and services "to improve the user experience". A clean Windows is a difference like day and night with the defauly one, in speed, stability and RAM usage. The specs of my modded Windows11 24H2 (Acer laptop)

Libre does this as well.

Looks like you got unsaved changes....

Save as...Untitled.docx.....Very Complex Naming Convention that my company came up with.docx save!

OK what's the name of the file? Here's a random location could you rename the file once more and tell us where to save it in one drive?

I remember when I was tasked with fixing up a personal/work PC of my colleague who was our lead artist. I was a bit shocked to see WinXP there, when win10 was already the norm, and with quite a bunch of severely outdated software on it. At the time, I thought "well, at least it does the job well enough for him to be still employed". Now I understand that he was probably 2onto something...

So what does this version of office actually do that my ancient copy of office 2003 doesn't, besides bog things down?

Microsoft products are just too big. At this point you need a lite/pro/full version. (No Microsoft, this is a fucking subscription idea) (always buy to own folks)

I actually think this is a good solution