[Propelloni]

I have to use MS products at work and use Collabora (on Linux) at home. Sometimes, I have to edit the same spreadsheet at home and at work and that usually works flawlessly, besides automatic coloring. Now, I also don't try to code in Excel, so that might be one reason. Excel graphs are also nicer.

Here is a comparison by the Document Foundation for spreadsheets [1]. I think it speaks for itself.

Regarding Powerpoint I can't say. I can't recall when I last used Powerpoint for anything. We have an in-house system where I just select slide type, enter my text and attach pictures in a form and it builds a CI-styled PDF for me. I think its basically a LaTeX front-end, but I never cared.

HTH

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr...

[greazy]

I can fill in my opinion of Impress <-> Powerpoint.

It's atrocious primarily due to MS not following open ODF. Everything is out of wack, dot point have different shapes, and spacing is wrong.

Impress is also not all that great. It's defaults are generally ugly, its auto sizing breaks and the animation pane is buggy.

Calc is much better. Writer is decent compatibility with MS