Author Topic: NeoOffice vs. M$ Office (Read 4620 times)

pendragon · « **on:** March 28, 2007, 06:50:32 AM »

Comparison Matrix

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I have yet to test NeoOffice. But perhaps others, who are experienced with this Open Source suite, will care to comment...

Gregg · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2007, 07:41:14 AM »

Wish I knew how to do a word search on that matrix page. I scanned it quickly looking for only one thing:
Converts AppleWorks 6 documents (.cwk and, um, whatever the spreadsheet suffix is - I forget)
Didn't find it.

Parker · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:15:44 AM »

Microsoft Office for Mac will convert an AppleWorks document for you
and Appleworks will do the same for most Microsoft Word documents.

I have had very little to no experience s with NeoOffice, although i did read that it is similar to OpenOffice, so if you're looking to compare the two, you may want to bypass this reply... anyway here is my two cents:

I love Microsoft Office for mac. In all honesty, i think it's better than Microsoft Office for PC. After using a bunch of different word processors, i have found Microsoft Office to be the best one out there... and compared to Microsoft Office for Windows, the price is right!

A+ to Microsoft for Microsoft Office for Mac...
although it would be nice to see a full working version of Microsoft Access for Mac
that i don't need a PC emulation application or Boot Camp/Parallel Desktops for.

Redmond, start your photocopiers, and make sure it's converting black and white to color this time.

kimmer · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2007, 11:10:35 AM »

QUOTE(Gregg)

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Wish I knew how to do a word search on that matrix page. I scanned it quickly looking for only one thing:
Converts AppleWorks 6 documents (.cwk and, um, whatever the spreadsheet suffix is - I forget)
Didn't find it.

Haven't yet read the article, but NeoOffice does NOT open AppleWorks docs. No, wait, it will open them - but they look like

CODE

###vqx#######d#$#$#$#$#$#$#?#@#########

I've always just opened my AppleWorks docs, copied/pasted or highlighted/dragged. That works fine.

I like NeoOffice, but like OpenOffice better. I just haven't yet installed X11 on my Mac so that I can run OpenOffice. Maybe some day.

As far as Word. I loved Word 5.1a. It was the best word processing program ever - bar none. Smooth, fast, powerful. If it ran in OSX, I'd still be using it. It doesn't, and I had way too many crashes with Word on the Mac and so ... I'm microsludge free. hehehe

Gregg · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:06:35 PM »

Good info!
But, to be honest, I've made my choice.
It will be MS Office, because we own 3 licenses. Only 2 are in use. The third is for me when I upgrade the computer in 2037.

Epaminondas · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:18:12 PM »

I have been running OpenOffice.org on Linux for years.

Runs fine.

Handles Microsoft .doc files seamlessly.

I have also put OpenOffice.org on a Windows machine.

Runs fine.

OpenOffice.org just keeps getting better and better . . .

Helpful documentation - manuals, FAQs, how-tos:

http://documentation.openoffice.org/

Best regards,

Epaminondas

sandbox · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:35:21 PM »

I have NeoOffice and it works just fine. Neither Openoffice nor NeoOffice will open Applworks documents directly. Save-as .text, RTF or any word.doc and they will open.

I have the MacOffice suite so I don't use NeoOffice beyond testing/demonstrating and recommending it to others. It works fine for others. I run OpenOffice in Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu and it works without a hitch.

MS Word will open Appleworks files directly, but they were allowed too through an Apple/MS cooperative arrangement. If Apple or Appleworks releases it's code then Neo/openOffice will be able to open it.

jcarter · « **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2007, 08:52:53 PM »

I would never ever in a million years have any use for Microsoft Office, yet I think its on these Macs. But NeoOffice is just fine for me. When people send me a powerpoint thingie of a batch of nice photos of a trip theyve taken, all I do is open it in NeoOffice and thats that. Its really great and free, though you can send donations which I do sometimes for software like this.
Jane

Parker · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:18:33 PM »

QUOTE

I have been running OpenOffice.org on Linux for years.

Runs fine

Key word: Linux

OpenOffice is really one of your only options for decent Linux word processing,
but while you can get a Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac license for as low as $49.6666666666666....... it's well worth it (in my opinion).

So you ask where did i get $49.66666... from?
Well, take the Student and Teacher edition.
It comes with 3 licenses at $149.
Divide $149 by the amount of licenses
which is 3
so you have 149/3
and you get $49.666666.... per license

Epaminondas · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2007, 11:28:08 PM »

QUOTE

OpenOffice is really one of your only options for decent Linux word processing,

I have used the following word processors in Linux:

OpenOffice.org (cross platform)
Abiword (cross platform)
KWord

I seem to be settling down with OpenOffice.org over Abiword and KWord.

Others prefer other programs. Each has its srengths and weakensses.

Another pool of possibilities:

QUOTE

1) Abiword.
2) TextMaker [Prop]
3) WordPerfect.
4) Ted.
5) StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer.
6) Kword.
7) LyX.

Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux

Best regards,

Epaminondas

Gregg · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2007, 07:31:27 AM »

I've heard that Ted really flys!

sandyman · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2007, 07:40:27 AM »

QUOTE(Gregg @ Mar 29 2007, 01:31 PM) [snapback]123284[/snapback]

I've heard that Ted really flys!

Which is more than can be said, unfortunately, for Open Office

It's a real resource hog and very slow to start up. I haven't been able to compare it to Office 2003/2007 but on the same hardware it's way slower and uses more memory than Office XP.

Personally I use Abiword on OS X and Word '97 on Windows. Word '97 is 10 years old and still does everything I need

I'm evaluating Mariner Write and it looks as though I may go down that road.

Sandy

Epaminondas · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2007, 10:08:49 AM »

Minireview: NeoOffice 2.1 for OS X:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/...w-neooffice-2-1

Mrious_be · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2007, 11:49:23 AM »

Just tossing in some of my experience.
I really like NeoOffice for as much as I use it.
I bet MS Office does the job, but from the times I used it till know, I feel NeoOffice is abit more intuitive to use.
The spreadsheet in NeoOffice is really great and with hardly any experiences with spreadsheets it was really easy to create a 12-sheet month-by-month document to track income and expenses I do, transferring the endresult of every month to the next one.
Appart from that I don't use NeoOffice to much... oh yeah, the PowerPoint function from NeoOffice doesn't work to well as far as I know.
But hey... PowerPoint is about the lousiest software out there (where people have to pay for).

sandbox · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2007, 01:07:05 PM »

E.... I downloaded 2.1 the day it was released...... it took an hour and a half for 136 mb or so. All the server were taxed.
There is no noticeable speed increase that I can see.

MS Office is slow, it would be hard to measure the difference between any word processing program, none that I've found are fast...... zoom.. zoom.

It takes an extra step to open some other documents with Neo but really it's not that big-O-deal. neo/open-office is a great alternative to the MS Office suite.

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