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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.
- OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. OpenOffice included a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database.
- NeoOffice 3.1.1 Brings New Features to Mobile Client, Native Mac OS X Text Highlighting, NeoOffice 3.0.1 Patch 3 Available for Download.
- LibreOffice is free productivity suite for mac OSX and developed based on OpenOffice Core. This mac office productivity suite gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. So, do you use above free Mac office suites as your preferable office.
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.
NeoOffice 2017.22 – Mac-tailored, OpenOffice-based productivity suite. Mac AppStore NeoOffice Productivity. NeoOffice is a complete office suite for OS X.
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. Wine 5 0.
[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. |
[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. |
[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.
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[edit]Still To Do
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.
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[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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The best office suite for your Mac
News from 2006
20 December 2006
OpenOffice.org 2.1 for the Mac using the X windowing environment is now available to download. There has been a delay in this release due to lack of resources. With this release we have more locales passed QA (Quality Assurance) than ever before on the Mac platform. There will be more locales being Quality Assured in the future.
The Mac download pages have also been updated to make it easier for you to find the download you are looking for.
The Mac download pages have also been updated to make it easier for you to find the download you are looking for.
We have found an issue with the export of PowerPoint Presentations. This is currently being tracked under issue 72571.
OpenOffice.org 2.1 is recommended for all users, as it represents a significant improvement over all previous versions. Among other things:
- Multiple monitor support for Impress
- Improved Calc HTML export
- Enhanced Access support for Base
- Even more languages
- Automatic notification of updates
We also have more extensions. Developers everywhere are invited to write extensions. To learn more, visit our Extensions Project.
03 December 2006 (link to photos added 13 December 2006)
Today concludes the 2nd Mac Porters Meeting in Hamburg. The meeting had a variety of developers involved with the Mac Port come together at the Google office's in Hamburg.This meeting has been documented, with the minutes available on Eric Bachard's Blog.Commentary on the 2nd Mac Port Meeting:
14 November 2006
On november 4th, Apple delivered an X11 update that improved many things. But, due an issue with the fonts, it also broke the OpenOffice.org suite, the full featured open source office suite and one of the most used X11 software on mac.
On november 14th, Apple published a new update. OpenOffice.org mac porting team has tested it and confirmed the issue is solved. All the users are encouraged to update to the latest X11 version of 1.1.3. This can be done through the Apple software update or by downloading it from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html. No more action is needed.
OpenOffce.org, in the name of its users, thanks Apple for the fast update.
On november 14th, Apple published a new update. OpenOffice.org mac porting team has tested it and confirmed the issue is solved. All the users are encouraged to update to the latest X11 version of 1.1.3. This can be done through the Apple software update or by downloading it from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11update2006113.html. No more action is needed.
OpenOffce.org, in the name of its users, thanks Apple for the fast update.
05 November 2006
It has come to our attention that there is a problem in the latest stable releaseof OpenOffice.org on the Mac and the X11 Update that Apple released on 1 November 2006. The problem is related to the Vera fonts that are relatedto the X11 update. We have found the following solution that will require an administrator user account for each machine concerned. Please followthe following steps which will allow OpenOffice.org to run again.
- Log in as an Administrator (if you haven't already), an Administrator account is created by default when you install Mac OS X or setup your computerfor the first time.
- Start the program called
Terminal
, it is located in theUtilities
folder. - Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal window:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad
- You will be asked for your password for the account that you are loggedin under. Type it in, don't worry, your password won't be shown to the world.
- Copy and paste the following command into the same Terminal window as above (all on one line):
sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad
- You should now be able to start OpenOffice.org normally.
When OpenOffice.org 2.1 is released, please upgrade as it will not have an issue with this.Apple should also be releasing an updated X11 update soon with the corrected Fonts.
Please take a look at the following issues for more information: 71096.
Please take a look at the following issues for more information: 71096.
13 August 2006
Today the Mac Porting Team are releasing OpenOffice.org forMac OS X (with X windowing) 2.0.4 in English and French.Unfortunately the volunteers who were testing the previous Germanversions have been unable to do the same for 2.0.4. This means thatusers of the German build of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X, will have toeither use the English or French versions, or use the untested Germanbuild that is still available.
22 August 2006
Thanks to Alexis Pigeon, the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X downloadpages have been localised in French. They are available from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.fr.html.
If anyone wishes to localise any other pages on the MacPorting Site, please grab the English files from the CVS, and enter theappropriate translations. The naming convention that you will use is <filename>.<languagecode>.html. You will then need to contact Shaun McDonaldto get them added to the web site.
Late August 2006
With great progress in the Mac OS X Aqua port and regularbuilds of the X11 version for both PPC and Intel Macs, the Roadmap has been updated.
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August 2006
With the release of the en-US version of OpenOffice.org 2.0.3OpenOffice.org now officially supports the Intel based Macs such asMacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.
Go and downloadyour 2.0.3 today.
Go and downloadyour 2.0.3 today.
May 2006
The growing number of questions on mac porting mailinglistshows us that it's time to help the growing number of OpenOffice.orgNewbies getting OpenOffice.org installed and not frustrated. Here are the links to our'OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X How-To' on top of this site. Our thank goesto Eric Bachard for providing the French How-to, to Loic Geslin for theenglish translation, Uwe Altmann for the german translation andeverybody else involved.
If you want to help us please translate the How-to to yournative language. Contact us on this on mac at porting dot openoffice dotorg.
April 2006
There has been some confusion about the relationship betweenOpenOffice.org and NeoOffice and we would like to clear things up.
Our focus is and must be porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. Inthe last year, we have been very successful in getting 2.0 to the MacOS (X11) and our team now includes many. We are further taking the portto Mac Intel, and beta builds are running of this. These are real andimportant accomplishments, and they could not have been done withoutthe support of the community. Our ultimate goal is to fully portOpenOffice.org to Mac OS X on Aqua. For that, we need all the help theMac community can provide.
Direct links to NeoOffice were removed because our focus is onOpenOffice.org, not NeoOffice, which is a derivation basedsubstantially (more than 98 percent) on OpenOffice.org code. If theOpenOffice.org coding effort is to be successful, we need for users towork directly with us.
We have no argument with NeOffice and wish them the best intheir efforts. Their approach differs from ours but satisfies manyusers. We invite them to work with us in building OpenOffice.org 2.0.3and beyond and in fully porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. We are alsoopen to the idea of collaborating: exchanging ideas and code (whenpossible) in a useful, friendly, and productive way.
We hope this clears up some of the misunderstandings. Again,we invite friendly collaboration and cooperation and would like for theMac community to help us port OpenOffice.org to Aqua.
If you want to join the fun, go to Mac Porting site Our listis [email protected].
April 2006
There was a donation of two iMac Intel 20' to OpenOffice.org.One for Tino Rachui and one for Stephan Schaefer. These very fastmachines will replace old G3's, which were good but slow machines.
February 2006
First screenshot of svdem. Stephan Schaefer, Florian Heckl and TinoRachui have made svdem work. Svdem is the toy dedicated toexperimentations in vcl. The objectvies is to progressively implementeverything for Carbon/Cocoa port.
February 2006
Beginning with 2.0.2rc1 OpenOffice.org X11 regular builds forIntel based Macs are avaialable. In order to get them follow the linkto non-qa'ed builds on our downloadsite
Late January, 2006
OpenOffice.org announced the first build of OpenOffice.org2.0.1 for Mac OS X (X11) that can run natively on the newly releasedMacintosh Intel desktops. No other fully equipped office suite canclaim as much, and ours gives users not just standards compliance butreal interoperability. Led by Éric Bachard, the teamincludes Eric Hoch, NAKATA Maho, Tino Rachui, Sophie Gautier, PavelJaník, David Nedrow, James Mckenzie, Filip Molčan, 'Mox',and many, many others. The group, which created this version in verylittle time indeed, is now eager to move even faster--with your help.Download the build, test it, participate. We are way ahead of theRedmond folks, let's keep it that way!
Nisus writer pro 3 0 2 download free. The builds provided for Intel based Macs are alpha and thusrisky. They only run on Mac-Intel boxes.
January 22nd, 2006
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Created a FAQabout NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org
January 20th, 2006
Pdf plus 1 3. Starting April 2005, there were several donations made to theMacOSX Porting Team of OpenOffice.org. We would like to extend ourthanks to those who made these donations to the MacOSX Porting Team on this web page.PortingOpenOffice.org to MacOSX X11, MacTel (MacOSX for the Intel processorbase) and MacOSX Aqua is easier with these donations.
Last Updated: 2006/08/28 10:30 by Shaun McDonald