Douglas, On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Douglas Burns wrote:
Apologies if this is a bit OT but could anyone recommed a good office suiteIf only more people thought the way you do mate, there might be peace on earth and good will to all men...
to replace Office X. I think Office X is good but I have a very real moral
dilemma about using Microsoft products and am slowly trying to ditch them
where I can. I'm using OSX 10.1.5.
You should take a look at Openoffice <http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html>
This is the M$office killer in the making. It's a visual pig at the moment as it's a port from Linux but an Aqua version is in the pipe. It's supposed to be able to read and write Office docs without a problem. Printing is apparently finished also. You'll need apple's Xwindow server <http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/>
I haven't played wit this all that much but I have had it up and running, it's not difficult and getting easier all the time. There is lots of support around if you need it.
Also have a look at Abiword <http://www.abisource.com/> not sure how printing works in this one though. This one is even easier to install, just drag and drop. You'll need Apple's Xwindow server again.
All the above are *FREE* and must be worth having a look at. Personally I'm using Appleworks until the Aqua port of OpenofficeX is done.
And do yourself a favour and upgrade OSX to 10.2.3, you'll never look back.
Good luck
Simon
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