NeoOffice Writer: First emotions
Apr 5th, 2007 by AndieCZ
As I decided several days ago, I try to use NeoOffice for my work I am doing on my Mac OS X. NeoOffice Writer is the first application in the queue to try (presentations and spreadsheets will follow – I am not a database tech guy). My feelings and emotions from NeoOffice Writer are really great. As I used Microsoft Word for Windows for several years – I am really quickly accommodated with NeoOffice.
There are just several things, I do not like about NeoOffice Writer. The icons of the application are not nice. I do not like them. They do not match with the rest of that nice and excellent Mac OS X. Really. I am not a big fun of the nice and clean design (with the exception of my apartment), but these icons really look like icons from early 90th of the last century. Wow, I have to take this remark about icons back. In preferences, there are several icon sets to be used and “Crystal†set looks really great. And using a small size of icons make them look great. They are much more better than in MS Office 2004 for Mac.
I was really afraid about the speed of the application, but the responsiveness of the suite is really quick and the speed is completely sufficient for my slow typewriting. Maybe a personal assistant typing 500 letters a minute could see some delays in showing the letters on the screen, but me personally, the cursor easily follows my keyboard clicks.
I am really lucky – NeoOffice knows showing the text in the mode, when you can really focus on the text to be typed, not the look of the text (I really do not like that “Page View in MS Word). As you can see, the page is not shown as a piece of a paper, but really like just a screen to type. Because, the styling should be always the next step of document production. And this step should come after the completion of the document typing.
Summarizing my first emotions with NeoOffice Writer – I recommend this application for you. Really. The best application from the open source world to be used as a word processor on Mac OS X.
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