Mac OS X Office Suite


Which is the best alternative?  

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  1. 1. Which is the best alternative?

    • AppleWorks
      4
    • OpenOffice (X11)
      4
    • Microsoft Office v. X
      34
    • WordPerfect Office
      1
    • Other (specify below)
      5


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I am currently using the latest build from OpenOffice under Apple's X11 system. All I can say is that it works. Nothing special, ugly interface, and hard to open files. I "test drove" M$ Office and I have to say it's great. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of budget. I have been looking into AppleWorks because I love everything else they make. Only question that I cannot find an answer to: does it support MS Office files (i.e Word, Excel, PowerPoint - the main ones)?? Also, is it the best choice? Take the poll and post comments as necessary. Thank you.

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I use Office X here as well. I just wish that M$ would port Access and Frontpage as well. I use both Entourage (for my Hotmail account) and Mail (for my .Mac account).

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Word and Excel are the best ones out there, but only because Apple hasn't made its own pro text editor or spreadsheet app (see Keynote vs. PowerPoint). But I doubt they ever will. People feel more comfortable about switching seeing Macs running the tolerable but wide-spread Word rather than an excellent but Mac-exclusive app.

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Stay tuned for MacWorld 2004, word has it Apple are releasing a Microsoft-Word compatible Word Processor.

Hmm that'd be very interesting and wouldn't surprise me too much. When's MacWorld?

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Stay tuned for MacWorld 2004, word has it Apple are releasing a Microsoft-Word compatible Word Processor.

That's been a rumor for the past couple of years. Everytime it isn't released, the rumor gets pushed back to the next Mac event.

There's not a lot out there for spreadsheet stuff that I know of. Mariner Write is pretty good as a Word replacement. Appleworks is ok, and definately better than TextEdit

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