Just for the record, there is no Word-compatible app that writes truly compatible files, at least, not for downstream use such as importing to InDesign. Most such tools will swap and convert and change documents to something generally compatible with Word and other Word-equivalent apps, but all — in my experience — do a faulty job of creating truly Word-equivalent files at the file and structural level, which is crucial for any use that's going to look past the stream of text. The problems multiply when the chain of "compatible" apps grows, as in converting A to B to C to "Word."
It is a universal problem frequently encountered in this forum and other places that "InDesign won't work right with my Word file" slowly unravels to "InDesign won't work right with the Word-format file I exported from Docs/Pages/Acrobat/etc."
You can dislike and shun Word if you like, for whatever reasons, but I suspect all of the problems above and noted in other threads are that you are using secondary tools that do an inferior job of Word file creation — because that's the long history of using "Word" files in InDesign, especially when the goal is EPUB and sometimes PDF export. InDesign demands truly compliant files, especially for things like footnotes, endnotes, and all forms of export.
The solution is to take ANY Word file you get from a third-party source and open and resave it in a genuine copy of Word. That fixes these maddening compatibility problems at least 9 times in 10. (Ideally, Save As to DOC, DOCX and RTF as a standard practice, as that increases the possibilities one or the other variant will work properly.)
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