LibreOffice is still poor at interoperability with MS Office – if everyone you're working with is using MS Office and you have to edit their documents without b

LibreOffice is still poor at interoperability with MS Office – if everyone you're working with is using MS Office and you have to edit their documents without breaking formatting, or want to use their templates, your only safe bet is using MS Office. Ideally in the same version and on the same OS, there's also breakage when moving files between the OSX and Windows builds of the same MS Office version. Then there's macros. Yeah, yeah, people shouldn't use them, but they do, and when LibreOffice crashes on particularly weird ones while MSO Just Works™… well. (Yesterday I came across a particularly fun example: 100kb data wrapped into 30 megabytes worth of macros that all did exactly nothing, but were part of the client's default template, and so in every file they send out. LibreOffice hangs when trying to parse them, even when disabled, Excel works.) Edit: Why the downvotes? I answered the question. Disagreeing with facts doesn't make them disappear.