> Similarly, first Excel document I try to open in it gives this error: Warning loading {document}: The data could not be loaded completely because the maximum number of columns per sheet was exceeded.

That's not exactly a fair assessment exercise. I'm not sure what format is the original excel file, but xlsb is a proprietary format.

My experience with Writer is wonderful. Have not had any issues and I know many people who use it daily with no issues.

Try to balance a picture and a couple of paragraphs in M$ Word in a long document and then come back to me on how that "high-quality" software handles it.

> there's just no way we can honestly tell people it's as high-quality as MS Office

Apparently, like many others in this entire thread, you've totally missed the point. I wasn't saying it's "as" high quality as M$ word (although I disagree with the usage of the word high quality here) but just that it is high quality by itself. This is known as an irrelevant conclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion