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Excellent Tutorial for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on Sunday August 15, 2004 @06:57AM from the for-those-of-you-who-are-in-offices dept.

Blano writes "Marc Liyanage recently posted a great article on getting up and running and optimizing OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. He includes some tweaks and helpful configuration tips." Another option is getting the software on CD.

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Re:Open Office is a joke on the Mac by gl4ss · 2004-08-15 07:27 · Score: 5, Informative

* Open Office on the Mac is a joke*

much of the point of this article is to guide on how to make it less of a joke and more of an usable tool.

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Re:Open Office is a joke on the Mac by Taran · 2004-08-15 13:26 · Score: 5, Informative

So why is it that OpenOffice for Aqua is so far off? Come on people- stop bitching, step up to the plate!
The OpenOffice team is redoing their internal APIs for version 2.0 - the Mac porting team would be wasting their time porting a deprecated version. You can find more at the OOo Mac port site.