>> I said (or intended to say) that 5 years ago it was awful, and today it
>> isn't. It just isn't great either.
> 
> Well, I find it is actually pretty good - having used MS Office for 
> several years, I'd say that it's pretty much got feature parity (given 
> that it can import most MS Office documents that I've tried without any 
> issues at all, I'd say that's a pretty good way to tell how useful it is).

For example, I asked Calc to draw a graph, and spent forever trying to 
figure out how to add a secondary axis. As far as I can tell, they just 
haven't got around to implementing that feature yet.

I will say this: The chart options layout is superior to Excel. Far more 
logical grouping, options do what you'd actually expect them to do, etc.

>>> As I said, I use it *every* *single* *day* and it *isn't* awful, it's
>>> quite good, and I find it provides all the functionality that most end
>>> users need.
>> I used it to write my CV.
>>
>> All of them.
> 
> And?

Writer works for simple tasks. Sometimes it's quite frustrating trying 
to make it do what you want though. (I can't remember a specific example 
right now.)

>> As I say, I sometimes use OO for fixing broken MSO documents. (MSO
>> itself is apparently too stupid to do this.)
> 
> Indeed, I remember you mentioning that before.

Trouble is, it tended to chew up the formatting slightly. (I tried it 
with files that weren't corrupted; same issue. It ate the company logo, 
for example.) I imagine this is something they're probably working on 
improving.

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