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Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
A few questions from a soon to be switcher
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<blockquote data-quote="SammySlim" data-source="post: 792580" data-attributes="member: 48298"><p>Open and Neo will open the .DOCs, but when exporting .DOC files you need to know what version of Office will be opening them - you have various choices in which Word format to save your documents, that's where the real challenge lies. Older versions of Word have formats and macros that are not compatible with newer versions and vice versa. That's where the complexity comes in, IMO.</p><p></p><p>As far as Open vs. Neo they are essentially the same. Used to be that Neo was compiled directly for the Mac and Open wasn't but that's not the case anymore. There are a few stylistic differences and Neo asks for contributions (and has a few enhancements as a result), but it is itself based on OpenOffice. Try them both out and see what you like better.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SammySlim, post: 792580, member: 48298"] Open and Neo will open the .DOCs, but when exporting .DOC files you need to know what version of Office will be opening them - you have various choices in which Word format to save your documents, that's where the real challenge lies. Older versions of Word have formats and macros that are not compatible with newer versions and vice versa. That's where the complexity comes in, IMO. As far as Open vs. Neo they are essentially the same. Used to be that Neo was compiled directly for the Mac and Open wasn't but that's not the case anymore. There are a few stylistic differences and Neo asks for contributions (and has a few enhancements as a result), but it is itself based on OpenOffice. Try them both out and see what you like better. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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