gizbug Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Use Office on my home pc (mainly word and outlook for my email). Any recommendations for the mac os? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Office 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Office 2004 there a couple of alternatives. there's one with a colourful logo made of O's... i cant remember what it is. and then there's OpenOffice, which needs to be improved on MacOSX, but until then, regular Office is prob your best bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopy11hk Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 there a couple of alternatives. there's one with a colourful logo made of O's... i cant remember what it is. and then there's OpenOffice, which needs to be improved on MacOSX, but until then, regular Office is prob your best bet. iWork is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I don't think iWork is compatible with Office file types though (i think iWork can load Office files, but it can't save files ad .doc or .ppt) Also, iWork lacks an Excel alternative and its Word alternative really isn't that great IMO. I do like Keynote though. You can make some pretty presentations using Keynote with some nice transitions. Personally, I think Office 2004 is the best bet. You can get the student/teacher edition which costs $150ish, which is plenty cheap. I dislike the fact that it is not an universal binary, which makes it sluggish as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Word- AppleWorks Excel- Mesa 3.0 Outlook- Mail PowerPoint - Overrated anyways... Then there is alway a legal copy of MS Office for Mac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Abiword is a good Word alternative that can save Word formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I don't think iWork is compatible with Office file types though (i think iWork can load Office files, but it can't save files ad .doc or .ppt) Also, iWork lacks an Excel alternative and its Word alternative really isn't that great IMO. I do like Keynote though. You can make some pretty presentations using Keynote with some nice transitions. Personally, I think Office 2004 is the best bet. You can get the student/teacher edition which costs $150ish, which is plenty cheap. I dislike the fact that it is not an universal binary, which makes it sluggish as hell. It can definitely save ".doc" .... hell so does TextEdit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I compiled Koffice and it works well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 iWork is really good (although a spreadsheet app is needed), and pages IS compatible with MS Word documents Also I heard somewhere that there is a team at OpenOffice.org working on a cocoa based OOo, or at least that uses aqua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I have to warn you that I recently experimented a bad bug with textedit, it will corrupt you doc file when saving it if it's larger than 3 or 4 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I don't think iWork is compatible with Office file types though (i think iWork can load Office files, but it can't save files ad .doc or .ppt) Also, iWork lacks an Excel alternative and its Word alternative really isn't that great IMO. I do like Keynote though. You can make some pretty presentations using Keynote with some nice transitions. FUD! FUD! FUD! FUD! iWork can indeedy do open Word and PowerPoint files and can save to them too. iWork does have a spreadsheet function built in. It isn't as good as Excel (and doesn't quite have all the Excel functions) but it does have those kind of functions. STOP SPREADING FUD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 i second abiword!, its fast and simple, it may not have as many functions as bigger apps, but i find that it does everything that i needed it to. ugly splash screen tho , i made a new 1 and a new icon to make it fit in with my os better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 wtf does FUD mean? Fostering Undue Detriments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 lol, where i come from fud is slang for female anatomy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 lolololol same were im from too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 wtf does FUD mean? Fostering Undue Detriments? Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt Uncertainty and Doubt are redundantly redundant, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 nevermind....i always use the save as option (not the export function) which only saves the document as a .pages file I didn't see that you need to use the export option to save it as a word document Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 where can we find K office? im using Nisus Writer EXpress it's fine and fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 You have to compile it via DarwinPorts. It is time consuming but pretty simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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