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Macs and Microsoft Office, please help.

post #1 of 12
6/8/07 at 2:26am
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I really want a mac, but it's been bothering me how I am supposed to open office documents (word, excel, powerpoint..). I know I can just purchase the MS Office program, but that's a $200+ program, way more than I can afford at this time. Are there any cheaper alternatives that let me use MS office programs or open files from those programs?
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post #2 of 12
6/8/07 at 3:06am
OpenOffice and NeoOffice should let you open all but the newest Office files—those made in Office 2007.
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post #3 of 12
6/8/07 at 10:04am
I would recommend NeoOffice. It is a native Cocoa app on OS X. That means that it is easier to install and will run better on your mac. I definitely understand your hesitance to buy Office, I was able to score a copy from my school... but if I hadn't I probably would have gone with NeoOffice.
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post #4 of 12
6/8/07 at 11:23am
NeoOffice in my honest opinion is leagues better than OpenOffice.

NeoOffice is your solution. dont even mess with that x11 crap
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post #5 of 12
6/8/07 at 2:50pm
NeoOffice is a Java app, IIRC.

Also, they just released an OS X native build of OpenOffice but its still in Alpha.
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post #6 of 12
6/8/07 at 2:55pm
Yea, it is a java/cocoa mix so that it fits in better with the rest of OS X.

I generally don't like Java apps on the mac since they take forever to load, and most of them don't quite match the rest of the system, particularly JGrasp.
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post #7 of 12
6/9/07 at 4:52am
u can get office for ~$100 in the academic version, if that's more doable for you.
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post #8 of 12
6/9/07 at 11:31am
i would use Neo. Hopefully the new mac office will be out eventually.

with compadibility aside, Mac office 2004 is hardly worth it.
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post #9 of 12
6/9/07 at 11:35am
Have you tried Thinkfree Office for Mac OS X. It opens and edits M$ Office files.

It's about $50 on Amazon. They say it has some limitations so be sure to test a demo if available before purchase.
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post #10 of 12
6/9/07 at 11:50am
I prefer NeoOffice, even though I have Office 2004...
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post #11 of 12
6/9/07 at 8:35pm
MS office is PPC anyway so i would avoid that either way if you are looking at a new mac. my vote goes to Neo, i use it every day and works wonders. and if all you need to open is ms word docs, the textedit app that comes with OS X can open .doc files natively.. works pretty well too.
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post #12 of 12
6/10/07 at 10:54am
id use neo until the new office for intel macs is released.

i wouldnt waste over 100$ on office 2004 now, not a great investment IMO
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