In some cases OO/LO simply doesn't support features that MSO has. For most of my work I generally prefer Libre Office, but it simply won't do outlining properly, and so I'm forced back to MS.

The real problem is not so much that Lunux is lacking, because all of the pieces are there. What's missing is a parctical distro, paid or not, that "has it all", or at least maks it easilly available. *ubuntu is not such a distro. Perhaps slightly off topic, but I prefer KDE to Gnome, and so have most experience with Kubuntu. I gave up trying to get all this stuff to work. Wanna see a distro that gets it right ? Try PCLinuxOS. It's not perfect, but it's got all of the stuff you need either installed or a click away in Synaptic. As in most things, working purely by priciple (free software only) is limiting.