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It's probably worth trying LibreOffice again if your last install was a couple of years ago. They take document compatibility bugs pretty seriously and fix a bunch with every release.

That's probably the easiest step to take next, before looking at virtualization or a full Linux install with Wine.

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LibreOffice does everything I need personally, and is far more powerful and useful than Google's or Microsoft's web suite.

I still use desktop Office for spreadsheets that need to be shared. Word docs are pretty well supported by Libre at this point.

Calc is... bad. It's slow and I've run into bugs in formulas; would rather use google sheets, which are a different kind of bad, but better than calc. No issues with writer, haven't used anything else.

You would probably like Gnumeric, though that project is very Unix-specific.

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