[X4U] Consumer Reports

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How about NeoOffice?

On Sep 8, 2005, at 8:45 PM, keith_w wrote:

> David Flory wrote:
>
>> On Sep 8, 2005, at 2:14 PM, keith_w wrote:
>>> In light of which, I have a question.
>>> I run Mac OS 10.3.9, and will be installing a brand new copy of  
>>> MS  Office 2004 in about a week.
>>> Valid reason? My wife uses PC programs at work, and has decided  
>>> she  wants the ability to do some work-work on the home Mac.
>>> So, back to having MS products on my Mac!  Sighhhh.
>
>> Again I wonder why people swallow Microsoft's propaganda that you   
>> have to have Word to work with Word documents. There are several   
>> pieces of software that handle Word doc just fine. The one I use  
>> is  Nisus Writer Express, but there are several others that read  
>> and  write Word files quite well. Try one just say no to MS.  
>> Another that  just came to Mind is Mariner Write (and Mariner Calc  
>> if you need to  work with Excel files.)
>
> I dod use Mariner Write, but we also need PowerPoint. Do you know  
> of any erzatz PP applications?
> I will try Mariner Calc. Does it read and write to MS' Excel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> keith
>
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