Comments on: Time to drop Microsoft Office?

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:53:36 +0000

OpenOffice/NeoOffice is very powerful, I like the Writer more than MS Office Word. I think that by reporting the bugs you find and the features you would like to see, the product will get much better.

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:36:40 +0000

NeoOffice is very buggy

By: stashuk

stashuk — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:08:52 +0000

have people tried NeoOffice? I recently made the switch to a MacBook and put NeoOffice on but haven’t really put it through it’s paces yet. I’m wondering how stable it is and how well it deals with doc’s from Word and elsewhere.

By: Phil Bowell

Phil Bowell — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:38:31 +0000

I will probably end up using the latest version of iWork if this is the case, after my diss has been written I won’t have much need for Word etc.

By: robg

robg — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:01:12 +0000

The Office folks have announced that there will be free converters available for the *current* version of Office for Mac (which I take it to mean Office 2004) to handle the new XML file format. See this news bit for the (scant) details:

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/08/07/msuniversal/index.php

-rob.

By: Jeffy

Jeffy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:08:25 +0000

LAST POST…Here’s a PPC mirror…
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/neooffice/NeoOffice-2.0_Aqua_Beta_3-PowerPC.dmg

By: Thrall

Thrall — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:06:51 +0000

Er…I’ve never used Office. I use open office and Abiword in windows..I have no use to pay a fortune for them, when all I need to do is write essay’s, etc.

By: Jeffy

Jeffy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:01:27 +0000

Sorry to double post but just to let you know that link I just posted is only for Intel Macs…gonna go search for a PPC mirror…

By: Jeffy

Jeffy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:46:39 +0000

Anyone finding the NeoOffice download not working can find it here:
http://downloads.vnunet.com/download/business%20office/neooffice+2.0+aqua+beta+3/_36853.html

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:38:52 +0000

I do believe that having a new file format for Office 2007 documents is dumb (they better have a good reason).

I’ve been using it for a few weeks though, and most of the time, I just save the files as “Office 97-2003″ type (.doc) instead of the new .docx, just so I don’t compatibility issues if I need to distribute or use the file elsewhere.

However, there is compatibility pack you can add on to Office 2003 (not sure if theres a mac version available yet) so that you can save and read the new .docx format, which is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/converter.mspx

But yes, I believe many mac users may switch if MS doesn’t add a compatibility pack for Office 2004 for mac.

Guy