OpenOffice or NeoOffice

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A quick question really.
Been using the mac for a couple of days and thoughts have turned to which one of these to install and use.

New MacBook Pro running intel duo on Leopard 10.5


Please post either 'open' or ' neo'.

I would be very interedted with the odd 'why you use the one you do', if you could spare the time.

Many, many Thanks in advance.
 
iSam said:
Open, free, easy to use. Neo makes you pay a donation, so never tried it.
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It's not compulsory. You can download it without giving a penny.

I started with OpenOffice and then for its ability to integrate better into OSX, I moved to NeoOffice. It's basically exactly the same, it just uses the top bar like other apps and you can use cmd-c and things like that. I wouldn't say it was different in any other way really.

For ease over both, I've now got myself Office for Mac, though.

// EDIT // I see below that OOo now integrates too - I haven't used either in a while, so I'd missed that step. In that case, stick with OOo.
 
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OpenOffice

The NeoOffice team were invited to combine their efforts with the OOo team but they refused. This is one of the bad things about Open Source - wasting resources doing something twice!

Now NeoOffice is redundant. OpenOffice is entirely native (whereas NeoOffice uses some Java to do its magic), it's the "official" product and you'll keep up-to-date with the latest release (NeoOffice lags behind somewhat).
 
I went from Neo to Open based on recommendations on here and the latest version of OOo is a big improvement over Neo.

However, I have just started a new job and been donated an iWork license so I've been using that for the last week. I have to say I prefer it. The only thing now is that I can't open .odt I currently have OOo installed as a converter.

Panzer
 
Panzerbjorn said:
I went from Neo to Open based on recommendations on here and the latest version of OOo is a big improvement over Neo.

However, I have just started a new job and been donated an iWork license so I've been using that for the last week. I have to say I prefer it. The only thing now is that I can't open .odt I currently have OOo installed as a converter.

Panzer
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I want to try iWork, never given it a go!
 
I tried Neo...but what I found really annoying was when I wanted to load up an Excel spreadsheet (finances) to make a quick change, because Neo is essentially one application, it took ages to load up.

I tried MS Office for Mac, and while it did what it said on the tin...in typical MS style it likes to fill my home dir full of crap that it thinks I wanted.

I'm giving iWork a trial at the moment which seems OK...Haven't tried OpenOffice though.
 
iWork rocks, but its nowhere near as powerful as Office - this is especially obvious in Numbers... Excel smashes it 3 ways from sunday with the facilities that are available to you... however if you don't need all the power features like i don't, then Numbers/iWork can't really be beaten i dont think :)
 
MuGeN said:
iWork rocks, but its nowhere near as powerful as Office - this is especially obvious in Numbers... Excel smashes it 3 ways from sunday with the facilities that are available to you... however if you don't need all the power features like i don't, then Numbers/iWork can't really be beaten i dont think :)
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Excel may be more powerful than Numbers (and it undoubtedly is), but Pages is hugely more powerful than Word, imo.
 
Is there a Pages plug-in which allows it to read .odt?

I really want to get rid of OOo as there's little point in keeping two apps for the same purpose but I'm worried about reading .odt's if I get any new ones.

Panzer
 
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