Submit in Word DOC format

Although Microsoft Word is the defacto standard in many offices, it is changing. OpenOffice Writers, and a number of other editors, can do what Word does. There is no reason to request that a document be submitted in Word, unless, it requires editing.

I am determined that institutions should require that documents be submitted in a format which does not require the purchase of a specific software when a number of alternatives are free. But if you really want to have a Word document, here is how to do it:

Using PDF FIll http://www.pdfill.com/ print the document into a multipage TIFF. This will make individual pages as raster images.

Convert the TIF to PDF ( I could not find a converter to DOC !!!)
Convert the PDF to DOC

Voilà you have a DOC which will certainly retain the page format. It will prevent users from copying and pasting, but pages can be deleted or inserted.