NeoOffice starts to be an excellent piece of software and a suitable alternative to MS Office 2004 for more than 90% of the Apple community. When you do not have to make complex analyses of the business and projections for the future then NeoOffice can be really the application you can use as your primary office suite. Decision to use NeoOffice can save your business huge amounts of money as NeoOffice is provided as open source application and can be used for free. On the other hand, some contribution is more than welcome by the developers.

Installation of NeoOffice is really an easy task. You just have to open the disk image of NeoOffice and open the package with NeoOffice. My recommendation is to have the latest version of Java installed in your Mac OS X to be sure, that you will receive the optimal performance from the application. When the application is installed, it will automatically open the NeoOffice home page for the first time inside its NeoOffice Writer. You do not have to worry about; it will be open just for the first time.

Also you can download and install additional languages packages as a standard NeoOffice distribution does not include all the available spelling and grammar packages. Yes, you are done and ready to produce your first document.

When you are familiar with MS Office for Microsoft Windows, you will feel very comfortable in NeoOffice Writer. It is more similar to the Windows version of MS Office suite; it is not similar to the MS Office for Mac. The application is as Aqua styled as it is possible and all the tips and user interface basics from Mac OS X works well under NeoOffice.

What you will get inside your NeoOffice suite:

1. NeoOffice Writer – the application for writing the documents, very good competitor to the MS Word. The work and feel is almost the same as with MS Word and all the users can quickly learn to use this application instead of MS Word;
2. NeoOffice Calc – spreadsheet application, which is not as complex as MS Excel, but for producing the basic analysis it is fully capable;
3. NeoOffice Impress – the competitor to PowerPoint, with similar capabilities
4. NeoOffice Draw – something like CorelDraw for making the basic drawings, which can be easily transferred to other applications
5. NeoOffice Database – application for creating databases and form /this will definitely need a deeper look from my side/

Do you think, you do not see icons for the other parts of NeoOffice? It is very simple, when you start NeoOffice, you just click “NeoOffice” in the menu bar and you select the kind of the document, you want to make. This kind of behavior was pretty common in the previous release of OpenOffice, but NeoOffice still behaves this way.

As you can see, installing and starting to use NeoOffice is very simple task, everyone can do. NeoOffice can be downloaded directly from the Internet, just patience is needed right now as many people try to download the application and download rate is very low. But your patience will definitely pay off.

Next time – it is time to make a deeper research of NeoOffice Writer.

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