PlayOnLinux takes care of it for you. Office 2013 supposedly works very well, Office 2016 can be sometimes buggy. For the 2016 version you need to get the 32 bit iso.
I've never seen any issues with it. People here used MS Office 2007 until like 2019. It should be fine as long as it supports docx and the document doesn't have complicated scripts (which nobody uses here so can't tell about them)
Still a bad idea. I didn't say they didn't work what I said is that it is a major security risk. There are people who still run Windows XP and it works for them. However, it is also a security risk.