I’m giving abiword a tryout - finally had enough of LibreOffice Writer - because it’s clipboard functionality is broken on several levels :
- it doesn’t “honour” the ubiquitous (to me anyway) X Select buffer (and doesn’t even seem to work with clipit running)*
- it takes like 2-3, sometimes FOUR F–KING attempts to get something onto the clipboard at all…
I finally had enough of it - and surprise surprise abiword works with the X Select buffer “out of the box” just minutes after a fresh “apt install abiword”!
TBH - I’d rather use Microsoft Word via O365 in a Chrome tab than most of the LibreOffice “suite” (note X Select buffer “just works” in Chrome and Chromium [and firefox too] when run in “X”)…
I’m probably okay with LibreOffice Calc - as I do less copying and pasting in spreadsheets - but - I may end up giving gnumeric a go if it starts annoying me…
** to the uninitiated the “X Select Buffer” is where you select some text (e.g. in gedit [note X select buffer in gedit is pretty flaky too!], or terminal, or pretty much anything) and it’s automaticallly plonked into the “X Select Buffer” and you can paste it in to another window (e.g. a terminal, text editor) with the middle mouse button… I’ve struggled with this in Libre Office for years and finally had enough - and I’m surprised, Libre Office was once Open Office itself a fork of Star Office which Sun Microsystems bought and made available as binaries or open source code - I’ve use Star Office years ago and I am SURE it supported the X Select Buffer when running it in X on a NIX desktop…
– edit update –
seems abiword aint that X integrated either 
however - it does let me select text in a document - and I can then x paste (middle button click) into some other application - that’s really all I want…