Open Office is a bit of a joke. They haven't made any real improvements to it for years.
Several years ago, a group forked off of Open Office to form Libre Office. It has been continuously improved, and is much more feature rich than OpenOffice now.
I strongly recommend Libre Office to those who want a FOSS office suite.
Good point.
I don’t pay as close attention to the name as I probably should. It’s “open office” in my head, because that’s what it was about a decade ago, even though it’s Libre Office as installed.
I was using Open Office as an MS Office replacement for a while but found I missed some convenience features present primarily in Excel. What I found was Softmaker Office from Germany. There are both free and paid (purchase, not rent) versions. I used the free one for years until I needed something that wasn’t in the free version, so I bought the paid one, it was like $50 with free lifetime version upgrades.
I find that I like the spreadsheet from Softmaker (Planmaker), but I prefer Open Office Writer to Textmaker. I do still have a version of Excel around because it does multi-core, and occasionally I get a sheet with tens of thousands of rows with a lot of interlocking calculations, and it just brings Softmaker to its knees while Excel can handle it. Other than that, between those two free/cheap suites, there’s not a thing I miss from Office.