Does anyone here use OpenOffice?

Like Susan, I kept NeoOffice around for some time just for the irritating situations where someone would send a word .doc and immediately trashing it was not an option.

I dumped OOo and NeoOffice because they are clunky behemoths for just wanting to open .doc files created in Word and first went to AbiWord, but then I found another really great open source app at http://opensourcemac.org. It is called Bean, and it is much more "Cocoa" than any of the previous contestants I tried.

-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.

I’m using the latest OOo developer version on the Mac (uses Aqua - although it’s far from being fully implemented, at least it ditches X-windows)

For what I use it for (not a lot really), the Aqua version seems stable enough. Wouldn’t recommend using for any serious stuff just yet though ... if stability is a must then it’s best to go with NeoOffice for the time being.

I switched to OpenOffice back when I was on Windows.
It was part of my migration-to-linux strategy, which was to switch my main workflow aps to linux-compatible ones (including Thunderbird, OOo, Zend IDE, PersonalBrain). When I finally made the switch, I hardly felt like I was using a new OS at all.

Been Using OO since it was still StarOffice and prefer it to M$ Office both for price and just because I don’t really use an office app that often and native output to PDF (while available as a printer add on for Windoze is still nice) is great.

In version 2.X there have been many improvements and have always been able to open a document written in MS Word (mainly because so few people actually know how to use most of the complex features--hell most people can’t even figure our tab settings).

I agree with the slowness under X on Mac as it is weighty just to read a doc but again Office is pricy. My wife mainly uses my MacBook and so I will let her know about NeoOffice or the other option that Scotty mentioned.

Personally, If I was deploying (used to be a systems admin) Windows PCs I would only do so with Open Office as it is feature by feature compatible for 90% of applications.

All the best,

Jay