For real-world use (read: exchanging files seamlessly with the PC- centric world) I don't think you really can avoid MS Office. I would recommend buying the student/teacher version of Office 2004 if you go that route. You can usually get it for $125-$150 and you get three installs with that. The downside is that it isn't updatable when MS releases the next version of Office for Mac.
And the license nominally requires you to be a student or teacher ? but aren't we all in one fashion or another . . .? My experience with Open Office was not good -- it was very slow and wasn't fully compatible with the real thing. That was several years ago, however, so maybe it's improved by now. > Time to move into X and abandon M$ Office 98. > > As AppleWorks atrophies, what options? > > Anyone use Open Office? > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
