Usage suggestions are the easiest to ignore. Only the stupid the lazy or the ideologically captured will pay any attention to Word's usage recommendations. Same with grammar handbooks and their usage guides.

We've been hip to the academy's attempts to brainwash people via language prescriptions for decades. Those who aren't coerced to adopt them with threats of bad grades or bureaucratic retaliation are free to, for example, use masculine pronouns generically, make pronouns agree in number with antecedents, use "fireman" for "firefighter" and all that other horseshit.