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Which free Office alternative do you prefer?
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I would like an Office-compatible app to keep around just for compatibility purposes (every now and then someone sends me a .doc, or I have to create/edit one for someone), but I don't want to pay for Office.
Which free alternative do you prefer and why?
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"OpenOffice" is a completely different product made by different people. What you're talking about is always called "OpenOffice.org."
I prefer NeoOffice/J because it's everything that OO.o is but works more like a native app. Specifically, I'm having a hell of a time getting the Japanese text input to work in X11, whereas Neo/J supports all of the standard OS X input methods without making the user jump through any hoops.
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I used NeoOffice/J for a while, but now that OO.o 1.1.2 is out, its added functionality beats the marginal advantages Neo had. It's also much faster to load than 1.0.3 was under X11.
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The author is currently working on moving Neo/J to the OO.o 1.1.2 codebase.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
(every now and then someone sends me a .doc, or I have to create/edit one for someone)
use TextEdit? or AbiWord in X11.
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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I use the new cocoa Abiword when I need to pretty print stuff, otherwise I use XEmacs.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I voted other because, although I know I'm dreaming, I want an office suite from Apple, or at least a kicked-up Appleworks!
Steve W
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Lots of older Macs
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Difficult to say which one is the best... so here's an article on the state of KOffice, currently: if KOffice could get a development boost, it could probably become an excellent - and far more "native" than others, maybe - option on OS X (also considering, for example, that KWord is rather unique in being a DTP-style word processor)...
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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Great link!
Another interesting thing is that OpenOffice.org can be "themed", in order to look more like the OS or desktop environment in use: for example, for KDE, there is this - for OS X, there could be something similar, in the future...
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