The latest incarnation of OpenOffice is LibreOffice. You may like to try that.
But if you want either of those to work exactly like Microsoft Office, you will end up frustrated. The worst thing is that they look very much like MS-Office and to some extent they try to imitate it (as well as other office software, like remember wordperfect??) but they are not the same. So it's easy to forget you're not using MS-Word etc and then expect it to behave just like MS-Word.
They are good though; in many respects better than the MS products that still have the bugs in them that were annoying me in the pre-animated-paperclip days in the mid 1990's!! I've been a Linux user since 1999. Never looked back. But I am a nerd and mostly use computers as big calculators / computing machines, which is what they are. Modern Macs are great in my limited experience.
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