NeoOffice's Media Browser displays photos and music in a familiar floating palette. These non-standard navigation issues make me more likely to open up TextEdit to write quick notes than either NeoOffice or OOo. Neither application uses standard keyboard shortcuts for selecting text, either. In spreadsheets, OOo offers no keyboard shortcuts for navigating within cells. In text documents, NeoOffice uses command and arrow keys to navigate words, while OOo uses the option key like most other OS X applications. Text navigation is a little confusing in both suites. These are small things, perhaps, but the omission of user interface shortcuts may aggravate long-time Mac users.
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For example, NeoOffice windows have document icons in the title bars (command or right click them to see the document's path and quickly open containing folders) while OOo windows do not, and command plus ` switches between open NeoOffice windows but not OOo windows. Overall, NeoOffice's interface is more consistent with other OS X applications than OOo's.
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In tests on a first generation MacBook Pro (2.16 gHz and 2 GB RAM) running OS X 10.5.5, OOo 3.0 looks and responds slightly differently from NeoOffice, even though they both use Cocoa and Java. The only group out there who may be left wondering is Mac users, who have had only an X11 version of OOo, and probably used the OS X native NeoOffice instead. With the new features in 3.0, the most popular open source suite, MS users have more reason to keep that $150 in their pockets, and existing OOo users have every reason to upgrade. Last month, I asked you why you were still wasting money on MS Office when there are so many free, open source office suites available.
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But do its new features justify a switch away from NeoOffice for Mac users? Great news for Mac users, since 3 is now a native Intel OS X application. Good news for anyone running Windows or Linux who wants a stable, high quality and free office suite. 3.0 was recently released with a host of new features like MS Office 2007 file format support, spreadsheet collaboration and an improved word processor comments system.
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