Hi guys,

I did try yet patch 6 for the NeoOffice 2.1 so please have in mind that all below is related to patch 5

I have bought my Mac since a month ago. One of the issues I have to sort out is to find apropriate spreadsheet, presentation, and text processor applications to work.

So I have looked at
* MS Office @ MAC - Trial
* Open Office
* Neo Office

In the same time I have checked Pages and Keynote from the iWork '06 packadge

My target was to find a freeware replacement as I am not able to pay $$$ for the commercial product now.

Neo office fits better than others to cover my needs and its greate that it is freeware. May be in future I will change my feets to Open Office, but this will not happed before they fully migrate to apple native (I do not want to use X11)

Up tho this point was good about Neo office and now I would like to add some critic.

It runs pretty slow when you are starting the application ( I have a brand new MacBook Pro 2007)

* NeoOffice - Calc:
- PC files may lost their formatting (I have this in pivot tables and graphs build up over them)
- keyboard shortcuts I learned by heart on PC do not works here (or at least I did not found them yet)
* Conclusion: Disregardeing minor bugs and my PC oriented behavior I did not found better replacement of PC MS Excel application for the Mac

*NeoOffice - Impress
- presentation created on PC is _REAL-L-L-LY_SLOW-W-W-W-W_ in full screen presentation display mode. It looks like rendering module is having a BUG
* Conclusion: Instead of using Impress I will reomend you to use iWork'06 - Pages which are really fast flying and also supports all MS PowerPoint features (sorry to say but it is not freeware)

NeoOffice - Writer
- I do not used this part of the product a lot so I did not found nothing special . PC files he opens smoothly.
* Conclusion: I do not have enought time to use tis app to make a conclusion yet. In the same time I liked built in Text

Regards,
Serhij