On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Nolan Porterfield <[email protected]>wrote:
Checking around, I've found Office 2008 for Mac Home, which has Word, > Entourage, PowerPoiint, and Excel (although I really only need Word and > occasionally, PowerPoint). All for $109.49. I'm wondering if anyone in > the Group has had experience with this app and can offer advice. Also, I'm > told that while the Mac platform is not likely to get a virus (as we all > know), the Office part needs virus protection. Recommendations for that? > I used to use Word and Excel for a lot of different projects. For the last couple of years, I've been using the Write and Calc programs from NeoOffice instead. They can read and write the Microsoft Office formats, including the newer .docx, and have all the features of Word and Excel that I use. They are different programs, so it does take a little bit of work to learn your way around. I can’t comment on whether the Present program in NeoOffice is compatible with PowerPoint because I don’t do presentations. As an added bonus, NeoOffice is just a Mac-like front end for Open Office, which runs on Mac, Windows, Solaris, Unix and Linux. You can take your files to Open Office on any of those type machines without any incompatibilities. I find this very useful because I jump back and forth between Mac OS X and Solaris at work. Besides, there's one other reason to try NeoOffice—it's free. You might not like it, but, if you do, you'll save $109.49. On another note, I started using NeoOffice on the recommendation of Lee Larson, who used to be very active here. Is he still around? -dan
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