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Neo Office Vs. Open Office

R.Youden

R.Youden

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Hi everyone.

What is the difference between NeoOffice and OpenOffice? I thought that NeoOffice was supposed to be based on OpenOffice so why make something separate?

Thanks.
 
R.Youden said:
So if OpenOffice ever becomes native them NeoOffice will be pretty much redundant?
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Yes, I'd think so. However, "if" is the operative word. NeoOffice has ben around a long time already, but native OpenOffice is still not in beta stage and they've been talking about it for two years.
 
theBB said:
Yes, I'd think so. However, "if" is the operative word. NeoOffice has ben around a long time already, but native OpenOffice is still not in beta stage and they've been talking about it for two years.
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It will give us a hard decision, and NeoOffice looks a lot better than OpenOffice...
 
neooffice is quite a bit better, because it is native. i like the interface a lot better too, and it's fairly user friendly.
 
And NeoOffice already integrates with underlying OS X features, such as the system spell checker. There's no guarantee that OpenOffice will feature that level of integration... even "if" they actually finish the project.

This wouldn't be the first time they've "committed" to a true OS X version...
 
NeXTLoop said:
And NeoOffice already integrates with underlying OS X features, such as the system spell checker. There's no guarantee that OpenOffice will feature that level of integration... even "if" they actually finish the project.

This wouldn't be the first time they've "committed" to a true OS X version...
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IBM are in the process of making Symphony for the Mac, hopefully it will be good...
 
psychofreak said:
IBM are in the process of making Symphony for the Mac, hopefully it will be good...
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I've had to use Lotus suite for a presentation once. It made me appreciate MS Office a lot. Of course, that was when canceling an email or replying to all required navigating through three levels of menus. With such an unusable mail client, expecting more from its presentation tool was a mistake, but I had no choice.
 
I love Neo Office, but the icon and splash are so ugly! Purple, brown, red, and cream? Just horrible. Then again, the Open Office icon sucks a lot too.
 
raymondu999 said:
Sorry to revive such an old thread, but how about now? Is OpenOffice native on Mac OS yet?
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Yes

With Version 3.0, OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application. The cool thing is, while the market leading office suite vendor dropped VBA support and the Solver feature, OpenOffice.org recently introduced limited VBA support and includes a powerful Solver component. In addition, OpenOffice.org integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications. Finally, people like OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Mac OS X because of its very good stability and performance. Reportedly, some Mac users have switched to OpenOffice.org just because of its extremely good stability.
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Open Office without X11 is only for Intel Macs.
Neo Office is still the only game in town for PPC Macs.

Neo Office would be my personal preference but iWork'08 has all the features I require. Love Numbers :D
 
Depends who you ask:

I still prefer NeoOffice as it behaves more like Mac software especially in the way it handles Fonts and it is only for Mac users.

OpenOffice is still a MS Clone and feels like it, as a Mac user you are also a very small fish in a very large Windows OpenOffice world.

Personal preference, both will probably get the job done.
 
^^^^^ Thanks.:)

I've been using NeoOffice for the past couple of months, and have been pretty happy with it. I haven't tried out OpenOffice, so I figured I'd ask to find out what the main differences are.
 
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