Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Steve Fuller]

On Aug 26, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Harry Corsover wrote:


On Aug 25, 2005, at 1:40 AM, themacuser wrote:




$99 after $50 rebate at http://store.apple.com/

I'm no MS fan, but it's a nice package, well worth the $100.



I went to the Apple Store, and didn't see anything even close to a  
$99 price for Office. Even the upgrades were much higher. What am I  
missing?





It's an online apple store off that you can take advantage of if you  
are elibigle for educational pricing. There's a link in the upper LH  
corner of the main page at http://store.apple.com.


Steve




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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Harry Corsover]

On Aug 25, 2005, at 1:40 AM, themacuser wrote:



$99 after $50 rebate at http://store.apple.com/

I'm no MS fan, but it's a nice package, well worth the $100.


I went to the Apple Store, and didn't see anything even close to a  
$99 price for Office. Even the upgrades were much higher. What am I  
missing?


Regards,

Harry Corsover


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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[themacuser]

I don't know what's wrong then. It loads very fast on my 1.33GHZ with  
768 RAM...

On 26/08/2005, at 2:59 AM, TjL wrote:





.. Original Message ...
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:10:26 +0930 "themacuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:



NeoOffice works fine and would be well worth $100. Get that, and use
the money on a RAM upgrade. NeoOffice requires no tinkering at all.





NeoOffice/J takes **forever** to load on my 1.5Ghz PBook w/ 1Gb ram.

Word is nearly instant.

I know some people are fundamentally opposed to anything not free and
anything from Microsoft, but sometimes it's the proper choice.

TjL



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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[TjL]

.. Original Message ...
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:10:26 +0930 "themacuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>NeoOffice works fine and would be well worth $100. Get that, and use  
>the money on a RAM upgrade. NeoOffice requires no tinkering at all.
>

NeoOffice/J takes **forever** to load on my 1.5Ghz PBook w/ 1Gb ram.

Word is nearly instant.

I know some people are fundamentally opposed to anything not free and 
anything from Microsoft, but sometimes it's the proper choice. 

TjL



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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[themacuser]

NeoOffice works fine and would be well worth $100. Get that, and use  
the money on a RAM upgrade. NeoOffice requires no tinkering at all.

On 25/08/2005, at 4:51 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:



On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:


He really doesn't like tinkering from his computer and he can get  
Office at academic pricing ($150?) so he might well be happier  
just buying Office and installing it.




Get Office.

$99 after $50 rebate at http://store.apple.com/

I'm no MS fan, but it's a nice package, well worth the $100.

TjL



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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Timothy Luoma]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:

He really doesn't like tinkering from his computer and he can get  
Office at academic pricing ($150?) so he might well be happier just  
buying Office and installing it.


Get Office.

$99 after $50 rebate at http://store.apple.com/

I'm no MS fan, but it's a nice package, well worth the $100.

TjL



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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Jason Rife]

neooffice works best for me, esp when dealing with other
alphabetsmy office:X did not do Arabic or Hebrew alphabets at
all...

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Re: Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Howard Katz]

I've had a few Word documents that Open Office simply won't open
properly--mostly those with graphics.  For those few instances I use a
mac at work that has Word:Mac version X (I'm covered by the site
licence, just haven't gotten around to installing it on my own machine
yet.

As far as opening spreadsheets or databases, I'd say 90% of what I've
tried to open works with Open Office--the few times that it wouldn't
open properly, I've not figured out what was causing the program to
balk.  I've had no experience with NeoOffice.

Any reason he couldn't also switch to AppleWorks?  :)


Later.Howard

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Question, MS Office or Open Office/Neo Office for G4 iBook OSX?

[Andrew in Ann Arbor]

I'm looking for feedback about office suite packages for my Dad to use 
on his G4 iBook (running Jaguar).
Right now he's using Office 97 in classic mode but he suspects that this 
may be causing instability and freezes (need to ask him if Office is 
crashing or the whole OS is crashing).
I told him that those of us who toil on the Windows side frequently 
associate system instability with the addition of MS software but I'm 
not sure he is convinced.
Also Office 97 is increasingly unable to read Office files he receives 
from others (presumably later versions).


I'm inclined to recommend Open Office or Neo Office  
but that may not be right for him.
He really doesn't like tinkering from his computer and he can get Office 
at academic pricing ($150?) so he might well be happier just buying 
Office and installing it.


I'd like to here from more serious Open Office (or Neo Office) users 
concerning computability with other office programs.
If it will read as wide a range of formats as MS Office then I might 
take a shot at downloading it and burning a CD for him.
I like Neo Office but I don't do much more than simpltext with it so I 
know nothing about conversions.


Thanks
--
Andrew in Ann Arbor


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