Petr Šourek In the last part of this series, we talked about the possibilities of replacing applications from the MS Windows environment on our favorite Mac OS system. Today we will specifically look at an area that is very widespread, especially in the corporate sphere. We will talk about substitutes for office applications.
Office applications are the alpha and omega of our work. We check our company mail in them. We write documents or spreadsheet calculations through them. Thanks to them, we plan projects and other aspects of our work. Many of us cannot imagine our corporate existence without them. Does Mac OS have enough capable applications for us to fully detach ourselves from the MS Windows environment? Lets look.
MS Office
Of course, I have to mention the first and full replacement MS Office, which are also natively released for Mac OS - now under the name Office 2011. However, the previous version of MS Office 2008 lacked support for the VBA scripting language. This has deprived this office suite on the Mac of the functionality that some businesses use. The new version should include VBA. When using MS Office, you may encounter minor problems: "disorganized" document formatting, font change, etc. You may still encounter these problems in Windows, but that is the problem of Microsoft programmers. You can download MS Office programs or get a 2008-day trial version with your new computer. The package is paid, the 14 version costs CZK 774 in the Czech Republic, students and households can purchase it at a discounted price of CZK 4.
If you don't want a solution directly from Microsoft, there are also adequate substitutes. They can be used, but sometimes they are not able to work correctly and display proprietary MS Office formats. These include, for example:
- IBM Lotus Symphony – the name is the same as the name of a DOS application from the 80s, but the products are just named the same and not linked together. This application allows you to write and share text and presentation documents. It contains a Powerpoint, Excel and Word clone and is free. It enables the loading of opensource formats as well as proprietary ones such as those currently being replaced by MS Office,
- K Office – this suite started with only applications to replace Word, Excel and Powerpoint in 97 but has evolved over the years to include other applications that can compete with MS Office. Contains Access clone, Visia. Then drawing programs for bitmap and vector images, a Visia clone, an equation editor and a Project clone. Unfortunately, I cannot judge how good it is, I have not encountered Microsoft products for project planning or drawing graphs. The package is free, but I will probably disappoint most users because it has to be compiled and the best way to do this is to use MacPorts (I am preparing a tutorial on how to Macports work),
- Neo Office a OpenOffice – these two packages are next to each other for one simple reason. NeoOffice is an offshoot of OpenOffice adapted for Mac OS. The basis is the same, only NeoOffice offers better integration with the OSX environment. Both contain clones of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and an equation editor and are based on C++, but Java is required to use all the functionality. More or less, if you are used to OpenOffice on Windows and would like to use the same package on Mac OS, try both and see which suits you better. Both packages are of course free.
- iWork – office software created directly by Apple. It is completely intuitive and although it is quite different from all other packages in terms of control, everything is done with Apple precision. I know MS Office and it has great features, but I feel at home in iWork and even though it's paid, it's my choice. Unfortunately, I had a few problems with formatting MS Office documents with him, so I prefer to convert everything I give to customers to PDF. However, it is proof that an office suite with a simple user interface can be made. I'm influenced so you better download the demo version to try it out and see if you fall for it like I did or not. It is paid and includes clones of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Another advantage is that this application package has also been released for the iPad and is on the way for the iPhone.
- Star Office – Sun's commercial version of OpenOffice. The differences between this paid piece of software and the free one are negligible. After searching for a while on the Internet, I found out that these are mainly parts for which Sun, sorry Oracle, pays a license and they include, for example, fonts, templates, cliparts, etc. More <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
However, Office is not only Word, Excel and Powerpoint, but also contains other tools. The main application is Outlook, which takes care of our emails and calendars. Although it can also handle other standards, the most important is communication with the MS Exchange server. Here we have the following alternatives:
- Mail – an application directly from Apple inserted as an internal client for mail management, which is directly included in the basic installation of the system. However, it has one limitation. It can communicate and download mail from an Exchange server. It only supports version 2007 and higher, which not all companies meet,
- iCal - this is the second application that will help us manage communication with the MS Exchange server. Outlook is not only mail, but also a calendar for scheduling meetings. iCal is able to communicate with it and function like a calendar in Outlook. Unfortunately, again with the limitation of MS Exchange 2007 and higher.
MS Project
- K Office – the above-mentioned KOffices also contain a project management program, but on Mac OS they are only available from source codes via MacPorts. Unfortunately I haven't tried them
- Merlin – for a fee, the manufacturer offers both project planning software and a synchronization server that can be used between individual project managers in the company. It also offers an iOS application so that you can always check and edit the project plan on your mobile devices. Try the demo and see if Merlin is right for you,
- SharedPlan – planning program for money. Unlike Merlin, it solves the possibility of collaboration of several project managers on one or more projects via a WWW interface, which is accessible via a browser and thus also from mobile devices,
- Fasttrack – paid planning software. It can publish through a MobileMe account which is interesting. There are a lot of tutorials and documentation on the manufacturer's website for project managers starting with this application, unfortunately only in English,
- Omni Plan – Omni Group registered with me when I first saw Mac OS. I was just looking for a replacement for MS Project for a friend and I saw some videos on how to use it. After the world of MS Windows, I couldn't understand how something could be so simple and primitive in terms of control. Note that I've only seen promo videos and tutorials, but I'm pretty excited about it. If I ever become a project manager, OmniPlan is the only choice for me.
MS Visio
- K Office – this package has a program that is able to model diagrams like Visio and perhaps also display and edit them
- OmniGraffle – a paid app that could compete with Visiu.
I have pretty much covered all the office suites that I think are used the most. In the next part, we will look at the bytes of WWW programs. If you are using any other office application, please write to me in the forum. I will add this information to the article. Thank you.
Sources: wikipedia.org, istylecz.cz
I'll admit that I've been waiting for such an article for a long time, but I'm not sure if it "satisfied" me. Of course, I was most interested in the possibilities of MS Office, where I was shocked: "When using MS Office, you may encounter minor problems: "disorganized" formatting of the document, changing the font etc. You may still encounter these problems in Windows, but that's a problem for Microsoft programmers." I don't really understand this, I've never had a problem with "discarded" formatting during normal office work. Otherwise, I think it would be nice to better describe the options for replacing Outlook, which is important to me in connection with MS Exchange and related tasks, calendar, meeting planning, room reservations, etc. Otherwise, of course, I will look forward to other parts. ;) Jarek
If you haven't encountered any messy formatting, be happy. It happened to me several times that a client brought a book "finished" in Word. when opened on the company computer, the whole thing was thrown away, even though the same font was used. The ends of the pages, the placement of images, links, etc. did not fit. Which of course is a big problem.
Yes, of course, but this is more related to typography, when typesetting essentially always requires so-called "wrapping" and then export to pdf, precisely for the reasons you described. But I don't want to be a nitwit and thanks for your articles.
Unfortunately, there are cases when this is not exactly good. For example, project documentation for applications, which must be accessible in case of modification (especially if another company works on the configuration/development, etc.) etc., etc. Anyway, I agree with you :)
As for Outlook, or Entourage, as it was called in 2008, I personally liked it a lot, but a lot of people on the Internet were cursing it, and so MS just ports Outlook for the 2011 version and nothing else. In any case, as far as planning meetings and cooperation with Exchange is concerned, I had no problems even in the 2008 version, and neither did my 3 ex-colleagues in the company where I worked. I even liked the smaller "project" office in Entourage, where I could write that I was working on 10 projects and rict. When I receive e-mails from these addresses, they are for this project, if this is in the subject, it will be a different project, and more or less, every event in the exchange calendar has received a note that it should be assigned to this and that project (I don't know if he did it internally or on the server) in any case, the server had a complete overview of all the meetings I had planned. There was no problem with booking a room either, it just had to be booked correctly, just like on Windows. So it happened that 2 people booked 1 room, but only because there was a problem with Exchange, not with Outlook, both in Windows and on Mac, I really don't know what the problem was, but the application worked.
Iwork is great, the only thing missing is road support. Or did I miss something?
I also tried Openoffice, but in the OSX environment, it works in such a way that it is not working.
The Czech Apple distribution company should be aware of the honor of the application:
http://lokalizace.apcom.eu/
Unfortunately, I don't know how good the translation is, I use ENG localization.
Otherwise, Czech spell check support not only in iWorks can be achieved according to this instruction:
http://www.radime.cz/pocitace/mac-os-x-pocitace/podpora-ceskeho-slovniku-v-mac-os-x/
When I started with Mac OS, I was attracted to iWork and I wanted to start with it. However, creating the first table discouraged me - it was not possible to rotate the text in the cell by 90° and I could not replace it with anything. So I stuck with MS Office. Of course, I still lack VBA there. It seems kind of unfinished to me - I can insert a button, but no macro can be defined for it. Or I can't. So, half-baked work again. But despite the different handling of Office on Mac Vs. Win I use MS Office.
They actually had VBA first and then removed it, in 2011 VBA should be there again. As for iWork, I haven't tried rotating in the cell, it seemed more logical and clear to me than MS Office, but it's a matter of what a person gets used to and personal preference. To be honest, I showed Office 2008 to my ex-girlfriend once, and she found that she felt more at home than MS Office for Windows...
I prefer iWork. I particularly liked the service iwork.com os Apple, which is currently listed as Beta. The use of iWork was further enhanced by the purchase of an iPad, where the Pages&Numbers&Keynote applications are very handy after the last update. The only thing I'm missing, and which I'm sure will be soon, is printing from the iPad from these applications. I have iOS 4.2 version BETA 2 and so far I only print in applications where it is possible (Safari, Mail, Pictures).
I would just like to note that OO.org is not based on Java, but is written in C++ -> http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#history . Java is required for Neoofice, but there isn't much in it either -> http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_and_Aqua#Technologies_and_Toolkits
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