I cringe every time I get a WP red-line back, too.
In case you're interested, there are actually some legal use cases for WP that make sense. If I'm not mistaken, the Office of the Reporter at the Supreme Court uses WP due to its superior hyphenation, kerning, and other publication-quality print readiness features. The clerks, justices, Reporter, and print staff can all work in the same program from draft to distribution to GPO.
Historically, at least, WP HTML export was also much cleaner, lighter, and more machine-readable than Word's. The Supreme Court of Texas has opinions online, for instance. Last I heard (a couple years ago) that HTML was exported from WP.
Word's HTML export still is pretty much the same, even in Word 2013. Yes, you can use Word 2013 to generate HTML that won't render properly in MS's own IE10 by default!
In case you're interested, there are actually some legal use cases for WP that make sense. If I'm not mistaken, the Office of the Reporter at the Supreme Court uses WP due to its superior hyphenation, kerning, and other publication-quality print readiness features. The clerks, justices, Reporter, and print staff can all work in the same program from draft to distribution to GPO.
Historically, at least, WP HTML export was also much cleaner, lighter, and more machine-readable than Word's. The Supreme Court of Texas has opinions online, for instance. Last I heard (a couple years ago) that HTML was exported from WP.