Exporting Word docs and spreadsheets from a chat interface sounds convenient until the formatting breaks and you spend an hour fixing tables that looked fine in the preview. Google has been chasing Office parity for years and this feels like another checkbox feature rather than something that actually replaces the real workflow. How does Gemini handle tracked changes or comments when exporting to Word format?

Ironically I would not be surprised if the LLM outputs an open format and then the harness converts it to the proprietary format

The real test is whether the exported .docx and .xlsx files actually open in Microsoft Office without formatting disasters. Gemini can generate plenty of things that look right in a preview but fall apart the moment you try to use them in a real workflow. This is the kind of integration that sounds inevitable in hindsight but actually requires handling a lot of gnarly Office format edge cases.