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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 335325" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>You may also wish to try Google Apps. See:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/a/" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/a/</a></p><p></p><p>I understand that it is $50/year, but that is a very small fee.</p><p></p><p>If you are just looking for MS-Word and MS-Excel equivalents, check out Abiword and gnumeric. Both are open source and free. Abiword is available at <a href="http://www.abisource.com" target="_blank">www.abisource.com</a>. gnumeric is available via darwinports (<a href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)" target="_blank">http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)</a>.</p><p></p><p>Abiword has a direct Mac OS X port, so you can just download and go. gnumeric is an X11 program, and so you need to install X11, then install the darwinports program and then build gnumeric. It sounds worse to do than it is.</p><p></p><p>Both programs read and write Microsoft Office formatted files and both support a MUCH more space efficient native format as well. Both programs are real speed demons compared to Office or NeoOffice. gnumeric is a 99% complete clone of MS-Excel. For the most part, using gnumeric is transparent vs. using MS-Excel.</p><p></p><p>BTW, both programs are available for all of Mac OS X (although you have to do the darwinports dipsy-doodle for gnumeric), Windows and Linux.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 335325, member: 17052"] You may also wish to try Google Apps. See: [url]http://www.google.com/a/[/url] I understand that it is $50/year, but that is a very small fee. If you are just looking for MS-Word and MS-Excel equivalents, check out Abiword and gnumeric. Both are open source and free. Abiword is available at [url]www.abisource.com[/url]. gnumeric is available via darwinports ([url]http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/)[/url]. Abiword has a direct Mac OS X port, so you can just download and go. gnumeric is an X11 program, and so you need to install X11, then install the darwinports program and then build gnumeric. It sounds worse to do than it is. Both programs read and write Microsoft Office formatted files and both support a MUCH more space efficient native format as well. Both programs are real speed demons compared to Office or NeoOffice. gnumeric is a 99% complete clone of MS-Excel. For the most part, using gnumeric is transparent vs. using MS-Excel. BTW, both programs are available for all of Mac OS X (although you have to do the darwinports dipsy-doodle for gnumeric), Windows and Linux. [/QUOTE]
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