This is an opportunity to rant about what makes MS Office so hard to be compatible with. It's a mess of ancient and modern features, that mostly, but not always, work as you'd expect them to, but the overall complexity is mind boggling.
This is used by normal humans. Who don't want to spend a lifetime getting good at all this complexity, so they muddle around until stuff gets done.
And then you end up with a table in a document where one row is wider than the others (sticks out at the side) and nobody knows how to fix it, and eventually in frustration the whole table gets deleted and redone.
And you end up with lines in graphics that are almost, but not quite, horizontal. And hacks where only the depth arrangement of opaque objects hides the compromises that had to be made to get graphics to look just so. Don't even get me started on localized hacks to page headers and paragraph formats, or extra blank lines or "start on new page" attributes all over, because the "keep with" stuff just doesn't work the way you think it should, that have to be fiddled every time the text reflows significantly.
And that's how you end up with documents that just don't work right in LibreOffice. It's simply impossible for an open source project to keep up with all that by glorified reverse engineering.
As a counterpoint though, you can have exactly the same mess with LibreOffice in the first place. A bunch of documents with muddled weirdness in them that will only display correctly in the tool they were done with. No problem as it all stays in its native tool i.e. doesn't need to export cleanly to MS Office.
One problem with LibreOffice (or whatever it's called this week) is that not all tools are equally good. The spreadsheet and word processor look solid. I'm not so sure about its Powerpoint equivalent though.
This is used by normal humans. Who don't want to spend a lifetime getting good at all this complexity, so they muddle around until stuff gets done.
And then you end up with a table in a document where one row is wider than the others (sticks out at the side) and nobody knows how to fix it, and eventually in frustration the whole table gets deleted and redone.
And you end up with lines in graphics that are almost, but not quite, horizontal. And hacks where only the depth arrangement of opaque objects hides the compromises that had to be made to get graphics to look just so. Don't even get me started on localized hacks to page headers and paragraph formats, or extra blank lines or "start on new page" attributes all over, because the "keep with" stuff just doesn't work the way you think it should, that have to be fiddled every time the text reflows significantly.
And that's how you end up with documents that just don't work right in LibreOffice. It's simply impossible for an open source project to keep up with all that by glorified reverse engineering.
As a counterpoint though, you can have exactly the same mess with LibreOffice in the first place. A bunch of documents with muddled weirdness in them that will only display correctly in the tool they were done with. No problem as it all stays in its native tool i.e. doesn't need to export cleanly to MS Office.
One problem with LibreOffice (or whatever it's called this week) is that not all tools are equally good. The spreadsheet and word processor look solid. I'm not so sure about its Powerpoint equivalent though.