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EDITOR NOTES
'Download Now' yields the Intel version; see 'Related Links' for the PowerPC version.
DESCRIPTION
NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
Released as free, open-source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), NeoOffice is fully functional and stable enough for everyday use. The software is actively developed, so improvements and small updates are made available on a regular basis.
Please consider donating to the NeoOffice project, see the link below on this page.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.1.1 Patch 1: -
In addition to bug fixes, NeoOffice 3.1.1 Patch 1 expands support for Mac OS X text processing services. When you select any of the submenus in the NeoOffice :: Services menu, not only will the highlighted data will be sent to the Mac OS X service that you select but now services such as the ChineseTextConverter service can change the highlighted data in your document.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
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| NeoOffice User Reviews (182 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 26 2010 |
BORODAVE Since v3.1.1 I've lost all controls when viewing .pps files. The presentation opens and the tool bar disappears. Is there a way to go back to v3.0...or whatever?
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 | Jul 24 2010 |
DOUG ENGELBART Why is this called a "patch" only? Where is the application then? Why is this not described clearly in the description?
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| Jul 19 2010 |
Could someone please tell me how to uninstall this software including the patch if possible? Cheers :)
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| Jun 24 2010 |
BIG MAC XXL Massive bug ("feature") since NeoOffice 3.1.1: Gridlines do not appear on color background! When a column or a group of cells in a Calc spreadsheet is given a background color different from white the grid lines within and around the colored cells disappear. This new feature was copied from Microsoft Office because this is how Excel treats cells with color backgrounds. There is no way to choose if you want this Excel behavior or the old one. For me this is massively annoying, because it destroys my spreadsheets by making them unreadable. I want the lines while I just want to give certain cells different background colors! Make the Excel behavior an OPTION! In OOo-Bugzilla I read the upcoming OpenOffice 3.3 will get the same Excel behavior as a standard feature. Very, very bad!
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 | Jun 14 2010 |
NEXTLOOP NeoOffice is a real gem in the Mac software community. In many ways, it puts iWork to shame.
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| Jun 14 2010 |
STEVEN GOODHEART This new Services patch ROCKS! I constantly use Services, and this really expands their usefulness in NeoOffice. Way to go!
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 | Jun 14 2010 |
MACFOOL NeoOffice v.3.0.2 patch 5 and v.3.1.1 patch 1 have been released for both intel and PPC on 13 June.
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| May 11 2010 |
MITCH_DE Compared to older NeoOffice: YES, compard to other Office (including MS): NO!
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| May 11 2010 |
YOXI It may not be perfect (and what is? certainly not MS Office) but it's a much better mac office experience than the still-buggy OpenOffice ports, and free to use, so I'd certainly recommend trying it out and seeing for yourself, since it does most of the useful things MS Office does (and some of them better than MS Office, in my opinion).
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| May 11 2010 |
DONMONTALVO Free isn't always perfect. But can't beat the bang-per-buck ratio. Don Montalvo, TX
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| Mar 7 2010 |
PISSNAROUND This links to the full download of NeoOffice 3.0.2
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| Mar 8 2010 |
YOXI It just links to their main download page - scroll down to the "Important Warnings for All NeoOffice Users" section, and click on the Patch Installer link at the bottom of that section.
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| Feb 11 2010 |
ILIKETRASH The document comparison feature of NeoOffice (and OpenOffice?) is much inferior to that of my several-year-old version of Word in that it is much less granular--it compares larger chunks of text and does not note differences within those larger chunks. For example, at times,Word will mark differences within a sentence while NeoOffice merely marks the entire sentences as different. And I've seen it do the same thing across short paragraphs--mark the entire paragraph as different rather than sentences or sentence fragments within the paragraph. This is a severe limitation and a nuisance when using this function and leaves the user open to missing important changes in e.g. legal documents.
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| Feb 17 2010 |
JAYAII Considering that NeoOffice is free, it's a pretty robust office suite, wouldn't you say?
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| Mar 7 2010 |
ILIKETRASH No, I wouldn't say. Robustness is unrelated to price. Your comment is off-topic. The topic is that NeoOffice's text comparison feature isn't very good.
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| Mar 30 2010 |
ROBERTCOOGAN2 I haven't had any issues with text comparison...plus JAYAII's comments weren't off-topic. They were meant to point out NeoOffice's best feature, that it is free. Kind of a good point, considering how much MS Office costs. Beggars can't be choosers.
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| Jun 22 2010 |
ILIKETRASH One person not having any issues with the feature in question does not mean that the feature is lacking or flawed or can't be improved. If you compare the document comparison features of NeoOffice with Word you will see the difficulty that I mentioned in my original post. The coarse-grained analysis of NeoOffice is nowhere as useful as the finer-grained analysis of Word and potentially costly to someone who depends on words for their livelihood. This deficit of NeoOffice could possibly be improved with merely an adjustment to some parameters in the comparison algorithm and is likely not an inherent flaw in the algorithm. JAYAII's and your comments about price are irrelevant to my post because they do not address the document comparison feature. Furthermore, just because a program is free does not mean that users are not allowed to offer constructive criticism for the benefit of other users and potential users, or NeoOffice or OpenOffice developers who might be reading this list. To defend this software or any other free software in the face of obvious problems solely on the basis of it being free isn't helpful or sensible. Do you think the developers, who obviously care deeply about the program, think that it's "good enough because it is free so let's stop working on it?" I daresay that I could find hundreds of free programs listed right here on Macupdate that are free that you would consider in need of improvement and would never defend simply because they are free.
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