[OrsenPike]

I couldn't disagree more. Yes Office has loads and loads of extra features but I have never seen a university use anything more than the most basic of features. LibreOffice covers this completely and I find it insane that people think that they need Microsoft Office in order to do such basic tasks.

[criley2]

Quite frankly, for those use cases simple solutions like Google Docs are every bit as effective.

But when we get into styles, layouts, designs, working with tables, and any kind of generally complicated document, LibreOffice just starts breaking down.

I'm forced to use LO at work, but I keep Office 11 at home.

My presentations look better than my coworkers, my documents are cleaner and I work more quickly than they do.

I can't begin to explain how much support I offer LibreOffice friends in the office here on "why the numbered list stopped numbering" or "how do I fix this random tabbing issue" or "why is there extra space over here" or "why did my font stop applying?" or "how come the table isn't spacing properly?" any number of a thousand other tiny annoyances that simply manifest far less often in Office.

Fortunately, we've been migrating to Google Docs in the office away from LibreOffice, and the requests for support are already way down. Docs isn't perfect but it's definitely better than LO if you have a modern browser and are doing basic word processing.