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I can't speak for the author, of course, but recently while working with LibreOffice Calc I ran into an issue where it was completely mangling cell coloring in spreadsheet that a coworker sent me.

I was using the latest version of LibreOffice in Ubuntu 20.04, and my coworker was running the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac.

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Yup, it can happen. I’m just curious what the issues specifically were.

Do you have an example document? The LO team are always looking at compatibility issues.

The problem with this is that one can't simply submit work documents and these formatting issues are usually edge cases produced by people that are doing things they really shouldn't with Office.

They should add a feedback wizard that guides a user to remove sensitive data and preserve the document format as much as possible.

There is a comprehensive document test suite. It is always being improved.

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