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OpenOffice.org 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. Good news for anyone running Windows or Linux who wants a stable, high quality and free office suite. Great news for Mac users, since OpenOffice.org 3 is now a native Intel OS X application. But do its new features justify a switch away from NeoOffice for Mac users?
Another fork of Apache OpenOffice, NeoOffice is specifically available for the Mac OS. In addition to having all the standard features, it adds some Mac OS specific extras like text checking and drag and drop functions. But a major downer with NeoOffice is that it's not compatible with MS Office file formats. This page compares NeoOffice 3.3 to LibreOffice 3.6 and Microsoft Office 2011. To see the version of this page comparing NeoOffice 3.1.1 with then-current versions of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office 2008, see NeoOffice 3.1.1 Feature Comparison. NeoOffice has many advantages over other office suites, including, in some cases, Microsoft's Office. LibreOffice is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool) compatible with other major office suites. The Document Foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this OpenOffice.org fork. Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware.Please consider making a donation to help support development. NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac that is based on OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Two engineers created NeoOffice in 2003 when they made OpenOffice run natively on OS X for the first time. With NeoOffice, you can view, edit, and save OpenOffice documents, LibreOffice documents, and simple Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Install NeoOffice. To install NeoOffice, double-click on the downloaded file in your Downloads folder. This should open a window in the Finder that contains the NeoOffice installer. Double-click on the software installer to start the installation. The installer installs NeoOffice in one of the following folders: In the Applications folder.
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. With the new features in OpenOffice.org 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. 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. Is OOo 3.0 worth the switch?
Interface
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. Overall, NeoOffice's interface is more consistent with other OS X applications than OOo's. 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. These are small things, perhaps, but the omission of user interface shortcuts may aggravate long-time Mac users.
Text navigation is a little confusing in both suites. In text documents, NeoOffice uses command and arrow keys to navigate words, while OOo uses the option key like most other OS X applications. In spreadsheets, OOo offers no keyboard shortcuts for navigating within cells. Neither application uses standard keyboard shortcuts for selecting text, either. These non-standard navigation issues make me more likely to open up TextEdit to write quick notes than either NeoOffice or OOo.
NeoOffice's Media Browser displays photos and music in a familiar floating palette.
NeoOffice offers some other welcome interface features over OOo, such as zoom and swipe gesture support for mutli-touch trackpads, a native media browser that pulls content from iPhoto and iTunes in a familiar interface, and native floating palettes. These are interface elements that current NeoOffice users have likely come to appreciate, and will definitely miss if they switch to OOo. Traktor dj studio mac.
Winner: NeoOffice
Performance
In tests, NeoOffice utilized almost twice as many processing threads while idle than OOo, but this did not translate to additional CPU usage, and NeoOffice allocated about a quarter less RAM than OOo. The extra threads may be one reason why in text documents and spreadsheets, NeoOffice's interface was quicker and more responsive than OOo 3.0's. Using the mouse or the keyboard, users will be able to select, edit and move text more quickly in NeoOffice. Speed tests on NeoOffice's wiki show that application has an advantage over OOo in many tests.
Winner: NeoOffice
Feature Showdown
OOo has added several key features like support for the ISO standard OpenDocument Format 1.2, the ability to import MS Office 2007 (2008 for Mac) files, spreadsheet collaboration, increased columns capacity in Calc, and much-needed improvements to the comments system in Writer. Additionally, OOo 3.0 offers more options for exporting documents as PDF with security enabled, and new extensions allow users to publish to MediaWiki servers straight from OOo and import and edit PDF files.
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These are great features that don't exist in the OOo 2.2.1 code on which NeoOffice is currently based. As mentioned above, however, the current version of NeoOffice offers several features that OOo's Mac native version can't match. And fortunately, NeoOffice has a vibrant developer community that has already started integrating OOo 3.0 features in test builds of NeoOffice 3.0, which will bereleased early to users who donate $25. NeoOffice 3.0 will be available for free to everyone starting January 15, 2009.
Winner: Draw
Final Verdict
Although OOo 3.0 offers some badly needed features and great extensions, its Mac support doesn't come close to that of NeoOffice. Switching to OOo would be more trouble than it's worth due to UI inconsistencies and its lack of Mac features that NeoOffice users have come to expect. With NeoOffice 3.0 right around the bend, my recommendation is to stick with NeoOffice 2.2.5 for now and download version 3.0 in January or enroll in the Early Access program if you can't wait.
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N.B.This page compares NeoOffice 3.3 to LibreOffice 3.6 and Microsoft Office 2011. To see the version of this page comparing NeoOffice 3.1.1 with then-current versions of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office 2008, see NeoOffice 3.1.1 Feature Comparison.
NeoOffice has many advantages over other office suites, including, in some cases, Microsoft's Office. Most importantly, NeoOffice is free and open source software, relieving you of costly licensing fees. The NeoOffice community also offers support options, including the documentation in this wiki and read-only access to the forums, where priority support is available for NeoOffice donors.
At the same time, other office suites also contain features missing in NeoOffice which may be indispensable to your work, and your purchase of commercial software generally assures the software has passed professional quality assurance and typically entitles you to professional technical support.
This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice with two comprable office suites, Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages; those we are aware of are linked below.
[edit] NeoOffice vs. Microsoft Office vs LibreOffice
As an open source project, NeoOffice is free to incorporate useful code from other open source projects that corporate products often cannot use. In turn, this allows NeoOffice to react to needs of its users in ways that others are unable to match.
NeoOffice is also far more integrated with Mac OS X than the Mac releases of LibreOffice. Rather than relying on the vision and goals of the Linux developers behind LibreOffice to determine features, NeoOffice includes many features designed specifically for Mac OS X and requested by NeoOffice donors.
Apart from these benefits, NeoOffice has features that outshine Microsoft Office and LibreOffice:
[edit]Price, System Compatibility, and Version
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 | Microsoft Office 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 |
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Price (single user, standard edition) | $10.00 | $199.99 | $0.00 |
Officially available for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs | |||
Minimum Mac OS X version | 10.6.8 | 10.5.8 | 10.4.11 |
64-bit application | |||
OpenOffice.org codebase (version) | ooo-build 3.1.1 | N/A | LibreOffice 3.6 |
Mac OS X codebase in use since | 2003 | 2001 | 2011 |
Bug fixes released | Weekly to biweekly | Every 2-3 months | Every 3 months |
[edit]Mac OS X Integration
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 | Microsoft Office 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 |
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Aqua look-and-feel | Good | Full | Some |
Aqua-style icon set | |||
Non-Mac keyboard shortcuts | Some | Some | Some |
Standard Mac keyboard shortcuts for document navigation | Some | Some | |
Option key available as shortcut modifier key | Partial | Partial | |
Native toolbar buttons | |||
Native context and overflow menus | |||
Native floating palettes | |||
Native highlighting for selections | |||
Menus available when no document window is open | |||
Document proxy icon in the titlebar | |||
Ability to move or rename open documents | |||
Document contents searchable by Spotlight | * | ||
Quick Look support | * | ||
High-quality Quick Look previews | |||
Sharp, high-quality text on Retina displays | † | ||
Installs on Mac OS X 10.8 with Gatekeeper | ‡ | ||
Uses Mac OS X spelling checker and dictionaries for supported languages | |||
Uses Mac OS X 10.5+ grammar checker for supported languages | |||
Support for magnify and swipe gestures on multi-touch trackpads | |||
Support for using an Apple Remote when displaying presentations | |||
Media (audio and video) support | |||
Media browser, providing easy access to iLife images, sounds, and video | ** | ||
Image Capture support, for inserting images directly from scanners and digital cameras | |||
Reads and writes files on AFP and SMB volumes and iDisks | Partial** | ||
Native (styled) copy and paste support | |||
Drag-and-drop between other applications | |||
Support for Mac OS X Services | |||
AppleScript support | |||
Integrated with Finder and major mail clients | |||
Usable with accessibility tools such as iListen, Proloquo, ViaVoice, and others | (?) | ||
Support for the Mac OS X accessibility framework | (?) | ||
Reads from the Mac OS X Address Book as a datasource | |||
Reads from the Thunderbird Address Book as a datasource | |||
Notes | |||
* NeoOffice includes the NeoLight Spotlight Importer and the NeoPeek Quick Look importer; LibreOffice also includes a Spotlight importer. On Mac OS X 10.5, Apple includes OpenDocument Text (.odt) files in the file types natively supported by Spotlight and Quick Look. | |||
† Requires the Office for Mac 20011 version 14.2.4 update. | |||
‡ Retail version. | |||
** LibreOffice is missing support for iDisk and webdav volumes and also is missing support for using Base .odb files on any remote volume. |
[edit]General Features
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 | Microsoft Office 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 |
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Type ahead word-completion (optional), similar to features found in mobile phones | |||
A logical, safe and suite-wide system for templates, so these are never accidentally updated | |||
Clean HTML code export (compliant with international web standards) | |||
Support for international standard ISO 26300 OpenDocument file formats | |||
Support for Office Open XML formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) produced by Microsoft Office 2007 and greater | * | * | * |
Unified User Interface, reducing learning time and costs | |||
Optimized PDF generation | |||
EPS preview, printing, and PDF export | (?) | † | |
Smoother text kerning | ‡ | N/A | |
Online document sharing service | ** | ** | |
UI for choosing which component appears on launch | N/A | ||
Notes | |||
* NeoOffice and LibreOffice include support for reading and writing Word 2007 (.docx), Excel 2007 (.xlsx), and PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) files using code from the ooo-build project. Office 2011 includes native support for reading and writing OpenXML file formats. | |||
† LibreOffice 3.6 does not support embedding EPS files in PDF files created when using the Export as PDF function. | |||
‡ NeoOffice 3.0.2 and later include text kerning improvements that result in a smoother, more uniform appearance compared to text positioning in LibreOffice. | |||
** NeoOffice Mobile allows users to securely share NeoOffice files with other users and other computers, publish directly from within NeoOffice, and view published documents using secure connections from regular web browsers or web-enabled mobile devices (including native iOS and Android NeoOffice Mobile apps), or from NeoOffice itself. Both free and paid accounts are available; see the NeoOffice Mobile site for more information. Paid NeoOffice Mobile accounts also allow NeoOffice to open and save files from Google Docs. Microsoft's Office 365 is a paid, business-oriented suite of online office applications as well as web-based file storage that is compatible with Office 2011. Microsoft's SkyDrive is a web-based file storage service that appears to integrate with Office 2011 via a separate application and web browser plug-ins. |
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[edit]Internationalization and Localization
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 | Microsoft Office 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 |
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Localized user interface and help files (number of languages) | 34* | 14* | 109* |
International spelling checkers | 88† | 17† | 88† |
Support for text entry in non-Roman scripts, including South Asian, East Asian, right-to-left and complex text layout scripts | Some [1] | ||
Supported scripts or languages: | |||
Arabic | ‡ | ||
Armenian | |||
Cyrillic | |||
Cherokee | |||
Chinese (Simplified) | |||
Chinese (Traditional) | |||
Devanagari & Gujarati (Indic languages) | |||
Greek | |||
Hebrew | |||
Inuktitut | |||
Japanese | |||
Korean | |||
Roman (Western and Eastern European languages) | |||
Roman (Hawaiian, Northern Sami) | |||
Roman (Vietnamese) | |||
Tamil | Partial[2] | ||
Thai | |||
Other | Likely** | Unknown | Likely** |
Notes | |||
* NeoOffice ships with UIs for US English, French, German, and Italian; UIs for the other 30 languages are freely available in language packs. Office 2011 is available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish [3]. LibreOffice 3.6 is officially available in US English for Intel or PowerPC Macs, with 108 other languages available as language packs. | |||
† NeoOffice uses the native Mac OS X spell-checker by default. If there is no native spell-checker dictionary available for a language, NeoOffice will fall back to Hunspell dictionaries. An ever-growing number of writing (proofing) tools for many languages are available from the OpenOffice.org project [4]. Microsoft Office 2011 ships with proofing tools for Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US/UK/AU/CA), Finnish, French (FR/CA), German (DE/AT/CH), Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (NB/NN), Polish, Portugese (PT/BR), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish [5]. | |||
‡ LibreOffice requires manual selection of an appropriate Arabic script font in order to correctly display Arabic text. | |||
** Because the core OpenOffice.org code includes support for languages and scripts which do not have keyboard layouts in Mac OS X, and because Mac OS X includes system-level Unicode support for many of these languages even though Apple does not ship fonts or keyboards, it is very likely that NeoOffice and LibreOffice will support text entry (and perhaps sorting) in the language/script if one installs third-party Unicode fonts and keyboard layouts. See Tom Gewecke's Your Multilingual Mac for more resources. For instance, there is a report that NeoOffice handles Khmer very well, and there has even been a report of using NeoOffice with characters in Unicode Planes 1 and 2. |
[edit]Word Processor
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 Writer | Microsoft Office Word 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 Writer |
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A logical style system that does not invent styles based on your layout choices | |||
Functional bullet/list numbering | |||
The ability to import WordPerfect documents | * | * | |
The ability to import Microsoft Works word processing documents | † | † | |
Table drawing options | Good | Very good | Good |
Notes | |||
* Thanks to the libwpd project. | |||
† Experimental support; not all versions of the format are supported and some formatting may be lost. Thanks to the libwps and ooo-build projects. |
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[edit]Spreadsheet
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 Calc | Microsoft Office Excel 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 Calc |
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More conditional layout options for cells | |||
Style-enabled layout system for text and cells | |||
Support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets | * | † | * |
Support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros | ‡ | ‡ | |
Notes | |||
* Thanks to the ooo-build project. | |||
† Microsoft announced in August 2011 that the Solver is available again as a stand-alone application that is downloadable for free by Excel 12.1.2 users. | |||
‡ Experimental support; all macros may not work perfectly. Thanks to the ooo-build project. |
[edit]Presentation
Feature | NeoOffice 3.3 Impress | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2011 | LibreOffice 3.6 Impress |
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The ability to export to Flash animation | |||
Superior (3D) font art possibilities. | |||
Support for playing QuickTime-supported audio and video | |||
Notes |
[edit]Performance Comparisons
Comparison of these office suites performing a number of different tasks can be found on the NeoOffice Performance Comparison page.
[edit]Supported File Formats
NeoOffice can read and write a large variety of file formats, both current and legacy. Current and recent Microsoft Office file formats are just some of the import and export possibilities; for a more complete listing, see the NeoOffice File Formats matrix.
[edit]Still To Do
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In all fairness, NeoOffice is not perfect. No software is. Along with relatively large RAM requirements (minimum 512 MB, 1 GB or more recommended), there is always room for improvement.
[edit]Other Comparisons
Additional feature comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at Mellel: Competitive Comparison (redlers.com; compares Mellel 2.0 with Microsoft Office 2004, OpenOffice.org 2.0.x, and Nisus Writer Express 2.7, but not NeoOffice) and Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares AbiWord 2.4.5, Mellel 2.2, NeoOffice 1.2.2/2.0.3 Aqua Beta, Nisus Writer Express 2.7, and Apple's Pages 2.0.2 [de]).
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