Best office apps

[timmillwood]

i am looking for a word processer, spreadsheet and presentation program.

What are the best ones for the least ammount of money?

I am trying NeoOffice once it downloads but do you know of any better ones?

 

[FredClausen]

I think hands down Microsoft Office is the best office suite on the mac. If you are a student or a teacher you can get an Educational version of it for a very reasonable price.

Other word processors to look at:

http://www.abisource.com/ Abiword (wordprocessor only I believe)

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ Openoffice. I know you have NeoOffice installed, but OOo may be something to look into as well because as I recall NeoOffice was pretty slow as it used java for the GUI, but OOo used X11 which is snappier.

 

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

Pages is obviously superior,

drag & drop in NeoOffice is just a pain

 

[kainjow]

NeoOffice all the way, especially if you're on an Intel Mac where M$'s Office isn't native yet. So far it's worked 100% fine with all my Excel and Word files (OpenOffice, that is).

 

[WillMak]

I'm using pages right now (no spread sheet tho) but pan to switch back to Office after it goes Universal.

 

[clevin]

openoffice is faster than MS office right now on Intel Mac,
MS Office's education discount can go as low as $75