installing open office

We have our own native port of OpenOffice, called NeoOffice.

 

I've tried it, but it looks horrible compared to NeoOffice, and doesn't integrate nicely. The X11 you need installed for it to work is a nuisance and overall I found it counter-productive compared to NeoOffice.

 

i found ooo to be usable, but there's little things that bothered me: the need for x11, pause when typing, disappointing GUI, responsiveness of the app, etc. it seemed obvious that the app was not intended for OS X.

i switched to office '04 and pages after using ooo for a few months. and now i'm trying out office '07 under parallels.

 

Neooffice works perfectly for day to day use. I use it all the time. I did use microsoft office but problem was it was a hacked version (i'm a bold boy ) but i'd have to leave the college network every time i opened it (it checked the network to see if anyone else was using the same serial number) so i changed

The only problem with NeoOffice is it takes about 3 and a half years to load (you'd be suppried how not far off that is!!!) since it's got loads of java in it. Openoffice are bringing out a new port that won't need x11 to run and a beta of that should be out with in a month or two... (i hope) and that should be almost exactly the same as the windows/linux version. Check out this link for more info and there's a few screen shots as well. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/2007/20070203toptenbeforealpha.html

Hope this helps

 

Definitly check out Neo Office if you are a fan of Open Office. I used Open Office before I switched to OS X and loved it. The OS X port of Open Office runs nice, but as MacAodh said, the load times are kinda sucky

 

openoffice.org is working on a OSX native, X11-free port of OO, test version is said to be available in next several months, lol.

At current time, NeoOffice is a good choice, which is OO with a nice UI, and X11-free (somebody said it use java to replace any need of X11). But don't expect it will run faster than OO, after all, they are essentially same in core.