OT: free office package for Mac users

[John Formsma]

Sorry if this is old news. I'm a new Mac user, and read about
NeoOffice in this month's MacWorld.

JF

On 4/30/07, William Morton <wjmwjm at asisna.com> wrote:
>
> On 30, Apr 2007, , at 8:57, John Formsma wrote:
>
> > FYI for Mac users...
> >
> > Another open source office package...based on OpenOffice.
> >
> > www.neooffice.org
> >
> > I haven't used it yet - just downloaded it this morning. Supposed to
> > be better for the Mac than OO.
> >
> > JF
> >
> I have been using NeoOffice for over a year with my Mac F5 and
> am very happy with it.  It can read/write documents in file formats
> compatible with WORD and EXCEL, (as well as RTF and PDF
> formats), and generally has all of the
> bells & whistles that the equivalent Microsoft programs do.  The
> Excel emulation is perhaps not quite as complete as M's Excel.
> There is a Powerpoint equivalent with Neo but I have not had
> any occasion to use it.  There's also a "Drawing" program but
> again I have no experience with that.  I believe there is no
> DBMS (Access equivalent), but since I use MySQL I didn't
> miss those features.
>
> My understanding is that the NeoOffice version is written in pure
> Java, as opposed to a compiled language used for OO, but I may
> be wrong.   At any rate, the performance of Neo is certainly fast
> enough on my machine, and I'd recommend it to anyone looking
> for a replacement for the M's office suite.
>
> I guess the only negative is the lack of a comprehensive set of
> documentation on the program.  I think the only doc'n is the
> help pages of the program itself, and I find them pretty skimpy.
>
>