> My other observation was that a lot of the "formatting" that I see in office documents is unnecessary and only there because the software makes it easy. The

> My other observation was that a lot of the "formatting" that I see in office documents is unnecessary and only there because the software makes it easy. The problem with that statement is: if a colleague sends me his Word document, I don't care how unnecessary his formatting may or may not be, I want to see the stupid thing on my laptop, preferably in the same state he saved it in! And right now, LibreOffice rarely delivers on that.