Open Office on Mac?
Hi.
I'm going to be getting my first mac soon, and I'm trying to decide if I will buy Microsoft Office for Mac at the same time. I use the MS Office suite on all my PCs, but I don't always want to go to my PC to work in word, excel, powerpoint, etc.
How does Open Office work on Mac? Is it decent? I've played with Open Office in Windows, and I use it regularly in linux.
Thanks for any thoughts/opinions.
I'm going to be getting my first mac soon, and I'm trying to decide if I will buy Microsoft Office for Mac at the same time. I use the MS Office suite on all my PCs, but I don't always want to go to my PC to work in word, excel, powerpoint, etc.
How does Open Office work on Mac? Is it decent? I've played with Open Office in Windows, and I use it regularly in linux.
Thanks for any thoughts/opinions.
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Try
http://www.neooffice.org/
It's a port of X11 to run on OSX natively
YMMV and all that.
if you dont mind using x11, openoffice should be ok since koffice seems to be in early development stages.
I will without question get Office for Mac, but I might wait a month. By the way, Amazon.com has the Student/Teacher edition of Office for Mac $15 cheaper than Apple.com, and free shipping. Plus, no tax for me at Amazon.com. Good deal.
Originally posted by ibook911
Does Appleworks come with PowerBooks too, or only ibooks?
AppleWorks only ships with consumer-level hardware (iBook, eMac, iMac).
Originally posted by IonYz
AppleWorks only ships with consumer-level hardware (iBook, eMac, iMac).
Good to know. Is there any other software that is absent on the professional machines, and on the consumer machines? Or the other way around?
Originally posted by ibook911
Good to know. Is there any other software that is absent on the professional machines, and on the consumer machines? Or the other way around?
Pro machines have OmniOutliner for note-taking and list-making, OmniGraffle for making flow charts and such, and Art Directors Toolkit, which does graphics-related number conversion and shows colors. I use OmniOutliner and have found it to be a very useful piece of software. OmniGraffle seems to be, but I haven't had use for it yet.