On Nov 9, 2006, at 21:11, Jeff Porten wrote: > I just upgraded to a MacBook and I have no idea where my Office > installer disks are, so I'm taking this as an opportunity to try > out OpenOffice. I'm using TextEdit and Pages for 90% of my word > processing anyway these days, so really the only component I'm > looking at is the spreadsheet. I'm not sure hat the question is, but if you want to avoid the X11 stuff you could try NeoOffice http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22021 The java interfacce is more Mac-like ..lj Open office requires the installation of the X11 packages.