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Mac productivity suites: Head to head

By mrdatahs March 2, 2008, 4:08 PM PST

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Mac productivity suites: Head to head

NeoOffice splash screen

NeoOffice splash screen

By Christopher Dawson

View this screenshot gallery of Mac office suites, evaluated from the perspective of a teacher.

NeoOffice is the OS X port of OpenOffice

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

NeoOffice Writer

NeoOffice Writer

The default document template for NeoOffice

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

OpenOffice Writer

OpenOffice Writer

Notice the X11 windowing for OpenOffice

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Apple Pages

Apple Pages

The default word processing template for Apple’s office suite

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Microsoft Word 2008

Microsoft Word 2008

The gold standard?

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

X11 needed some time to think

X11 needed some time to think

This command prompt might be a bit disconcerting for average users

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

That's better

That's better

Fortunately, it goes away eventually and OpenOffice launches

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Formatting and images copied into OpenOffice

Formatting and images copied into OpenOffice

Or not…this was a cut and paste of a fairly simple numbered list with some graphics from NeoOffice in OpenOffice.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Formatting pictures

Formatting pictures

Not the prettiest dialog box ever, but NeoOffice proves to be highly functional.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Charts in Apple Numbers

Charts in Apple Numbers

Apple’s spreadsheet application has a great interface and highlights relevant information in multiple colors for easy modification on the fly.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Making charts in Office 2008

Making charts in Office 2008

The chart ribbon gives you easy access to different chart types.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

A pie chart in Excel

A pie chart in Excel

This was easy and it looks great; however, the formatting palette incorporates so many functions that it can be overwhelming.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Charts in NeoOffice

Charts in NeoOffice

These actually aren’t as easy to create, nor are they as easy to make pretty; this gets the job done, though.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Charts in OpenOffice

Charts in OpenOffice

Again, it gets the job done.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

PowerPoint 2008

PowerPoint 2008

The ribbons are better executed here than in Office 2007.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Formatting palette

Formatting palette

But the confusing palettes remain.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Themes in Keynote

Themes in Keynote

There’s more where these came from. You have to give Apple some credit.

Mac productivity suites: Head to head

Inserting media into Keynote

Inserting media into Keynote

Again, there’s something to be said for the Apple ecosystem.

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