That’s what I meant by “They aren’t MS Word.” The problem is MS Word is the one everyone else has and those slight differences where “Looks fine on my machine” but looks weird when the teacher sees it.
As for “advanced features like macros” who the fuck uses macros in MS Word? I’ll believe it in Excel but in Word?
LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, hell Abiword is probably good enough to get practically everyone through a bachelor’s degree writing MLA formatted essays; if you need to get more serious than that you should be learning LaTEX.