>She said she couldn't use Libre Office as the formatting wasn't exactly the same and needed to be so for her work
Then she has bigger problems. Don't expect the formatting to be exactly the same in the next version of word.
Our patent agents have elaborate templates to make sure that the docs come out patent-ish with all the paragraph numbering and cross refs, but it's a full time job keeping them up-to-date.
Old school guys have some weird nroff-type formatting language and a bunch of macros. They should probably use LaTex but I suspect somebody has patented that.