

There are alternatives for everything, and most of them are better that the windows-only options. Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.
That said, some folks do have to use the crappy MS software for work. There’s nothing to be done but to pity them.
I’ve not tried to make such a table myself in Libreoffice, but when I open one that someone at work made with excel, everything works as expected.