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Whatever happened to doing a native version of OpenOffice for the Mac?

What do you mean? I had a customer install it only last week and it's Carbonised now and works natively :|

Edit : Yep, V3.0.0 Final is out! Aussie Mirror : http://openoffice.mirror.aussiehq.net.au/stable/3.0.0/

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Cool thanks :) Hopefully this version will actually install on my machine, RC4 even when installed as Administrator refused to install and complained it didn't have sufficient access rights :huh: . If this does it again, then I'm ditching OpenOffice and looking for something else.

EDIT: It did more then fail to install, it removed OpenOffice completely! then when it was about to install it encountered the error....bugger, I get all the luck :(

EDIT2: Good news, is at least this version installed without a hitch :)

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What do you mean? I had a customer install it only last week and it's Carbonised now and works natively :|

Edit : Yep, V3.0.0 Final is out! Aussie Mirror : http://openoffice.mirror.aussiehq.net.au/stable/3.0.0/

There was talk of making a native version that used Aqua widgets. Whatever happened to it? The problem with NeoOffice is that it's always a version behind.

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There was talk of making a native version that used Aqua widgets. Whatever happened to it? The problem with NeoOffice is that it's always a version behind.

Well it's native in that it's a standard cocoa app and uses aqua widgets but it still has a long way to go before getting a mac ui. Just looks like a windows app right now.

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Free program VS pay program?

I think they deserve alot of credit for coming this far from 2

Well i'm not knocking them for having a bad UI--just outlining the shortcomings in the UI that Quillz was talking about.. It's great that they've made such a large suite native. Certainly not an easy task.

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To save? No. But opening all Office 2007 documents now works.

Just save them as 2003 versions, as O2k7 will open them.

If you really want the ability to save o2k7 files, you'd need to install the o2k7 file converters, save a doc, then convert it to docx.

But option 1 sounds easier :p

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You can open docx files but be prepared to have a pretty screwed up document if you have more than just text. I tried opening a docx file with a couple charts that were copied from excel and none of them were their. The tables that were made from within word that their formatting removed.

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looks hell of a lot better than the windows and linux versions...

Perhaps. But: It does not really look like a native Mac app.

On the other hand Mac users shouldn't complain too much. OO.org is a very capable office suite after all, at an unbeatable price point of 0.00 ?.

[quotHi, I'm a Mac. I'd rather pay a lot of money for a proprietary closed source piece of software used to make a document, than to download a free piece of software (and hopefully donate a few bucks) that can make an equally good document, because if the software interface I use to make documents does not exactly and precisely match the look of my environment, I am incapable, and even paralyzed, at even the thought of making such documents with such an unfashionable looking interface.i>

-- as seen on Slashdot.

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