I use NeoOffice to work around Office bugs - deemery

For what it's worth, I routinely get PowerPoint presentations from Windows Office that won't display graphics correctly and Word documents that crash Word when you try to print them.

NeoOffice has been my savior, displaying graphics that PowerPoint won't and printing documents that Word won't.

dave

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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:16 AM PDT

Not a propaganda forum either - Superstitious

Your post is hardly objective. There are serious shortcomings in the bloated and overpriced MS Office suite for OS X. Entourage's performance, for instance, is so poor on the Mac that since our university has adopted Exchange for e-mail and switched everyone to Entourage, people are having to dump perfectly good computers (like 17" 800 Mhz flat panel iMacs) because Entourage slows the machines down to a crawl. It's absurd that e-mail is something Microsoft can even manage to bloat to the point of people having to switch computers.

Where is the file converter for the new file format? An arcane beta isn't good enough. A fully featured seamless and 100% effective converter that comes as a regular Office update is.

Word doesn't even include double spacing in its Formatting toolbar by default, and the clunky floating palette is disliked by every user I've seen. When I see someone using Word, that palette is nearly always hidden and people go through convoluted steps to access simple things like double spacing.

In order to get features like Japanese typography, people have to do ridiculous things like drag Word onto a special program that's nested in folders in the office folder. Why can't a user simply click a preferences option to turn this stuff on?

The program is obsolete when it comes to design and only has a strangehold on the industry due to inertia and monopoly power.

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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 06:22 AM PDT