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by lloeki 3613 days ago
Apple's Pages pre-App Store does it right. The new Pages, while decried, has improved from its first iterations and is just immensely more intuitive and efficient than Word/LO. By "intuitive and efficient" I mean to the point that I've seen people organically discover and learn to use styles properly all by themselves.

LO on Mac is just alien: that gray gradient on the toolbar is terrible, and floating modals are legion. It looks fine on Linux due to GTK theme support. I can't speak for Windows. Now that's for the looks, usability is entirely something else: managing styles and setting up headers/footers/table of contents is still ludicrously complex.