Regardless, I find MS Office to be terribly bloated and overly expensive.
I have used OpenOffice some and think it is well on its way to being a very good solution but I can also see how some run from it.
I own ThinkFree Office and like that to a degree but it could use some updating and it can be poky at some things.
As of late I invested in a copy of Mariner Write and Mariner Calc. I find them to be very, very nice and reasonably priced. So far they are my pick over MS Office or AppleWorks. And both do a wide variety of file formats. Lots of features as well.
As far as presentations go, Keynote is all I can answer, PowerPoint is nearly unusable to me in comparison, if one were not comparing PP is perfectly fine, but the workflow is so much faster in Keynote and the output is much nicer.
Sincerely,
David M. Ensteness
On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:39 PM -0500 10/16/2004, In "running old software on OS X", Tim Larson wrote:
I can't justify spending more of my hard-earned $$$ for another version of MS Office to run on OS X when I already have Word 5.1a/Excel 4 and Office 98. AppleWorks isn't quite "there" yet and none of the free alternatives I've seen (like AbiWord, OpenOffice.org) are very polished (i.e. I'm not comfortable letting my wife use them).
We just got a new PB/Panther but have been using AppleWorks (6) for years. And I guess I'm asking myself if we really need "more"?
IOW, AppleWorks vs MS Office vs OpenOffice vs ?
What specific features do you need that makes you say "AppleWorks isn't quite 'there' yet"? etc...
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