David: We'd like to keep the documents editable and preserve things like dynamic endnotes, which we would lose if we just used PDFs. It's also a real pain to convert PDFs to other forms like HTML or plain text, though of course Word doesn't exactly produce the cleanest HTML either. Exporting to RTF would be my preferred solution, though that still loses the dynamic endnotes.

Joe: I'll have to play around with that feature and see how well it works for us. Even with the new wrinkles that it would create, it still sounds like less work than the way we're doing things now.

Thanks for the suggestions.