If you have Tiger 10.4.11 there's no need to upgrade your M$ Office
suite or worry about X11. On three separate machines (two Intel, and
one PPC) I've installed NeoOffice with no problems and reasonably
good Aqua integration (albeit still clunky in comparison to iWork
apps). As it takes code from the Novell version of OpenOffice, it can
import and save Word 2007 docx programs. I've imported a few files
successfully, but one very large one would not open. Never had any
problems with Word 97-2003 files, indeed OpenOffice/NeoOffice
conversion filter is way better than that used in Pages and will save
a file in the format in which it was created.
Some have issues with the forking of the OpenOffice code and effort
and a stable Aqua version of OpenOffice is in the works, scheduled
for the release of OpenOffice 3 sometime this autumn. Under X11
OpenOffice looks like a Linux app with the same keyboard shortcuts as
in Windows, which is counterintuitive on a Mac. In the menubar you'll
just see X11 rather than the application's menus. You could donate to
both projects as Mac OS X needs a good open source prodductivity
suite fully integrated into the desktop environment.
Neil
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