[xtracto]

I like libreoffice for what it has represented since the days of StarOffice. BUT...

A couple of months ago my dad and I had to edit a large-ish book of 250+ pages (recipes) with a Table of contents and whatnot.

We ended up using Google docs because LO TOC and headers sync and editing Functionality was lacking.

I remember in MS Office 2000 there was a view showing only headers and easily allowing you to correct levels and indentations, as well as moving full sections.

Also we needed to automate a bit some image formatting and G docs scripting was just more straightforward.

And finally, the seamless online collaboration made it a no brainer, instead of document sharing and changes tracking.

It's a shame LO has achieved a lot and is amazing we can have such functionality for free. The team has done an amazing. I was just bummed something like GDocs seemed more complete for my book use case (particularly bc editing a 250+pages book in the browser is PAINFUL)

[Kadin]

Interesting, as I have had the opposite experience. There are lots of documents that I have to work with -- most created originally in Word 2007, I think -- with very intense formatting, forms, embedded charts and other crap, and Google Docs makes a total hash out of them.

LibreOffice, OTOH, pretty much looks just like they did on the original.

The one issue I've run into is font substitution. The fonts that LibreOffice uses by default if the actual Microsoft fonts aren't installed are not, at least IMO, very good substitutes. They don't look great to me, but worse they seem to be very different in terms of character/word width, so everything gets reflowed to hell and back. But assuming you install the actual MS fonts, the results seem quite good.

[mixmastamyk]

Hmm, I thought "outline mode" was finally implemented after ten or fifteen years. When was this?

[xtracto]

A couple of months ago. Outline View is NOT available in Writer, only in Impress :(