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Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006Best Office Suite for Mac?
I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a office 2004 for the mac and since I have a lot of files for Office I know this is a good option. What is the most popular word processing and spreadsheet application for the mac though? Is it office or is there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format office files? > I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite > from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format > office files? Many things will read Microsoft Office files. Some better than others. If you are familiar with Office, then unless cost is a factor, get Office for the Mac. There is also NeoOffice.org which is free. OpenOffice.org, also free but you need to install X11 (X11 comes on the Mac installation DVD under optional installs). There are other applications out there that can provide compatible Office functions, I'm just not familiar with them, but I'm sure someone else will pipe in with suggestions. Bob Harris On 8/21/06 8:24 PM, in article nospam.News.Bob-6FD750.21240921082006@news.verizon.net, "Bob Harris" <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote: >> I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite >> from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Bob Harris If your son's schools is anything like Vanderbilt University (where I have until recently worked), he can purchase thru the university at greatly reduced cost thru the university site license program.  SignatureBrian Ehni Basically everyone "qualifies" for the StudentEdition of Office, currently under $80 at amazon.com . Microsoft says you have to be a student (primary, secondary, college, whatever) or a teacher or a parent of a student. Like anyone checks up on that :-) > If your son's schools is anything like Vanderbilt University (where I have > until recently worked), he can purchase thru the university at greatly > reduced cost thru the university site license program. > I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite > from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format > office files? There are also those who feel that Mac Office is superior to its windows counterpart. Better UI, easier to use, less bloat, etc. OpenOffice.org is also quite capable, but my experiences with X11 on OS X are less than stellar. Between those two, I'd stick with MS Office. -Dylan C > I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite > from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format > office files? Well, the first thing to do is decide whether you need a SUITE of applications at all. Microsoft does all it can to convince everyone they all need the whole package -- when home users only need a word processor in most cases, and probably a very simple one. So do you need a complex spreadsheet program? Do you need a presentation program? Do you even need a full-featured word processor? You an check out these tools: Apple's iWork (a great word processor and layout program with a presentation program) Papyrus Nisus NeoOffice Staroffice Thinkfree Thanks for all the responses. I have one other question, I use outlook extensively on the pc. I see that Office 2004 has Entourage instead of Outlook but it seems it won't read these files. I really don't want to convert my .pst files since I will still want to be able to use them on the PC so does that mean I can't really use Entourage with my PC files? Is there some type of clone of Outlook for the Mac? > Thanks for all the responses. I have one other question, I use > outlook extensively on the pc. I see that Office 2004 has Entourage [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Entourage with my PC files? Is there some type of clone of Outlook > for the Mac? I thought Mail (and other programs) knew how to import from Outlook Express databases. That should be simple to learn about for whichever product you want to look at. I don't know any reason you'd want to choose any specific mail program from what you've said so far. I think you need to take a look at the way each of them look, because it's a good bet all of them do what you are looking for already. Thunderbird Eudora QuickMail NisusMail Apple's Mail program MS Entourage etc, etc. Office is the one most people choose - MS Word and Excel are the standard, though there are many people who dislike anything MS sells. Personally I love Excel and like MS Word - but the real advantage with Office is that its files have become a sort of defacto standard n most firms, and offices. David > I am a Windows XP user now so am used to the standard Office Suite > from microsoft. Well I'm now buying my first Mac. I know there is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format > office files? According to all the blogs and scandal sites, OpenOffice.org is about to release an OSX-native version of OO.ov2 Which is to say it doesn't require X11. And for those who haven't tried it: OpenOffice can open and save to Microsoft Office file formats. There are various known inconsistencies, most of which are small unless you spend your time writing VisualBasic for Word or Excel. But it is free. In article <44F38C97.82BB80C6@REMOVE-TO-REPLYconfidential-counselling.com>, > Office is the one most people choose - MS Word and Excel are the > standard, though there are many people who dislike anything MS sells. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > there another? Do any of the others also work with standard pc format > > office files? > According to all the blogs and scandal sites, > OpenOffice.org is about to release an OSX-native version of OO.ov2 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > But it is free. There's also NeoOffice, an offshoot of OpenOffice but said to be integrated with MacOS rather than X code, or whatever. It works and is very compatible with MS file formats. Also free. |
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