There are some drawbacks to OpenOffice for Mac of course. The six components OpenOffice for Mac comes with are Write, Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw, Base (database management) and Formula (mathematical application). It may not be quite as polished as Microsoft Office but considering you get all this for nothing, you really can't complain. In the mean time, I can’t recommend getting NeoOffice when the free Pages and Numbers programs that come with macOS do a better job in this regard.OpenOffice for Mac includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Perhaps the NeoOffice team will get around to it on some future upgrade. I would expect NeoOffice to maintain file format integrity on RTF files. I have to assume it’s because Microsoft makes it very difficult with their constant changes, but come on guys, RTF files? Really? You can’t get too much simpler than that. I found that Pages and Numbers do a better job in these scenario's than NeoOffice when it comes to using the lowest common denominator file types in heterogeneous systems yet none of these programs can be trusted for always maintaining format integrity if the files use some of the more advanced features. Consequently, I am forced to maintain copies on Windows machines, just to ensure anything I create on a Mac doesn’t get screwed up likewise when I want to edit a document on a Mac that originated from a Windows machine. I often create documents that clients pay money for and expect to use in Microsoft products they own. It’s especially important during presentations with clients. I want to use products on the Mac that I can trust will maintain the original file formatting when sharing MS documents with colleagues. I prefer Mac computers to PC’s, but constantly have to deal with the plethora of Microsoft file types in my profession. This suite of programs do not maintain file format integrity on even simple RTF files or basic XLSX files. Not a fan of my recent purchase of NeoOffice 2017.

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