I don't call Iwork expensive, I think it was $88.00 or something like that when I purchased it earlier on this year, given that Microsoft Office is about $300.00 here and isn't accessible one bit then I think Iwork 9 goes into my "Bargain" basket, that's where most Mac applications belong by the way <smile>.
As for the question of what's better? Well, depends on your personal taste thus far as far as I can tell, i have a fondness for both and both do things very differently from each other at times. If you're familiar with Microsoft Word for example then what Neooffice presents you will look very similar whereas Pages looks somewhat different though its easy to get used to. Both product have some accessibility problems at the time of writing, at least with Neooffice we stand a good chance of having these problems addressed given that the software is "Open Source", the more problems the team know about then the better the chances of getting them fixed <smile>. On 27/08/2009, at 5:33 AM, a radix wrote: > > Hello, i just read an article on wikipedia about neooffice. It is > apparently > a fork of openoffice optimalized for the mac. I will try it as soon > as I get > internet working correctly, it seems very interesting. > I guess iworks is accessible too, it isnt too expensive. I need an > office > suite that is very much compatible with microsoft office (although i > am not > willing to buy that) for our school when you submit essays online > they go > through a program that prevents plagiatism but htat needs a certain > document > format. > Greetings, Anouk, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:51 PM > Subject: Re: has anyone tried neooffice with vo? > > >> >> As I Understood it, Neooffice was the new name given the project, it >> was Open Office and before that it was Star Office <smile>. >> >> >> On 27/08/2009, at 1:12 AM, a radix wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello oh, strange that there are two names for it then, neooffice >>> and >>> openoffice. >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:40 PM >>> Subject: Re: has anyone tried neooffice with vo? >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Yep, its actually Open Office and I use it here all the time, >>>> some of >>>> the ways the programme presents itself take a little getting used >>>> to >>>> though. >>>> >>>> I use the Word Processor mainly and I've had a brief look at the >>>> Spreadsheet, looks okay. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> a radix wrote: >>>>> Hello, I am reading through a swithc-to-the-mac kind of site and >>>>> they >>>>> recommend neooffice for office applications. I had never heard of >>>>> this >>>>> package before and I wondered if anyone has used it and if it is >>>>> accessible? >>>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Dane Trethowan >>>> From Melton Victoria Australia >>>> mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net >>>> Phone United Kingdom >>>> 02032874641 >>>> Phone Australia >>>> :0390058589 >>>> Phone United States >>>> :8159261869 >>>> Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 >>>> Mobile/SMS +61 438 571201 >>>> MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net >>>> skype:grtdane12 >>>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/grtdane >>>> blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
