NeoOffice 2.2.2
November 3, 2007
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Today I downloaded NeoOffice which, in short, is Open Office after it’s been extensively modified to fit right into the Mac environment. I already have an earlier copy of Open Office. It worked in a sense, but I could never get past the fact that here was an application running on my Mac that looked like it was channeling Windows 3.0.
NeoOffice fixes that. It’s not quite Cocoa quality, but it’s close enough. What really got me excited though, are a few features that it has, that take me back to my days with Office on the PC. I used Word so much that over time I trained it to auto-correct and auto-complete an enormous number of words and phrases that I tended to use over and over.
I didn’t care about 80 percent of what Word could do – just the remaining 20 percent that was those automation tools; I even hid all of the toolbars and rulers, leaving Word looking more like Notepad (but with nicer fonts).
Now I’ve jumped right into doing the same with NeoOffice. It’s every bit as useful to me as Word once was, if not more so, and it’s free.
I am one happy chappie!
NeoOffice 2.2.2 software download - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
