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The native format for LO Writer is odt. It will read and write docx, but that is a conversion.
Always, with MS Word or LO Writer, you need to "clean up" formatting, by using styles.
The docx formatting will ALWAYS be better after Wordprocessor cleaning. Even if converted and edited as odt and an extra Save As docx at the end with LO Writer.
Either MS Word or LO Writer can export PDF for publishing, but the simplest route where all styles becomes CSS for epub2 is to import a docx to Calibre (it does this better than odt import, so with LO Writer you do an extra Save As docx as you edit in odt). Then make epub3, mobi, lrf, pdb, azw3, kfx etc from the epub2. You might have to manually edit CSS of image styles, but everything else should be perfect if the Wordprocessor is used correctly.
Maybe 10 years ago MS Word was better than LO Writer (or prior Open Office), but now you only need MS Office if working in a business using MS Office and exchanging document with co-workers several times a day.
I switched completely to LO from MS on Windows about 2015 and from Windows to Linux completely in Jan 2017.
Libre Office is a better idea than MS Office on the Mac (or Pages).
InDesign is now expensive rental and better suited to paper publishing by Corporates. Even for Corporate users it's pointless compared to MS Word or LO Writer for a straight novel to PDF.
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