A replacement for M$ Office. :-)

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Hi,
If you want a version of Open Office that runs as a normal Mac program see the download link on
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums
for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta. It doesn't need X11 and is great.

NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta is brand new for Xmas. I've been using an older alpha version for the last year. No Problems and no M$ Office either.
6+ hours on dial up last night but worth it. :girl:
 
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meltbanana314

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I really like the Aqua-fied look of NeoOffice/J. It's much better looking than OpenOffice.org on X11, but...

I used to use plain ol' OpenOffice.org under Linux and Windows XP, and hated every strand of bloated code it was written in. I took forever to load up, it constantly crashed, it never saved my work... it ran just like MS Office on Windows 98.

If you don't need to have a whole office suite, then I recommend Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/)
It's got native versions for OS X, Linux, and Windows. It also loads up in under 5 seconds on my grandfather's eMac w/ 128MB RAM (running Panther) - so if you need good WYSIWYG word processor that doesn't take half a night to load, you can't beat this. :mac:
 

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