[P1] What's the skinny on windows media player for mac?

[Jim Bollman]

I use Apple Works for word processing and spreadsheet.  It gives me 
enough compatibility to open the Word and Excel files people send me.  
Haven't needed PowerPoint but if I did I would probably use KeyNote, a 
friend uses it and has good luck reading in PP slides.  If I needed 
more compatibility I would load OpenOffice.  All this is on my home 
machine.  My Mac at work does have Office since the company bought it 
and I have used it for several years (before OpenOffice), but today I 
would probably go with OpenOffice.  The same fellow that uses KeyNote 
uses a Linux box at work and he gets by with OpenOffice on that with 
out much problem.

I have also used ICWord with good success reading Word documents, it is 
shareware, the same fellow has ICExcel but I haven't tried it.

Jim...

On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:53 PM, iBook List wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:20:48 -0400
>
> Just curious, how do you get around MS Office documents (Word,
> Powerpoint, Excel)??  I too would avoid MS, but it seems impossible.
>
> Guy McMickle
>
> On Apr 17, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Jim Bollman wrote:
>
>> I couldn't bring myself to put a MicroSoft product on my clean Mac.  I
>> found an open source package called VideoLAN and so far it has played