OpenOffice.org is coming to the Mac, and natively, without requiring any X11 server. They've made fantastic progress at the Aqua port. Native Mac support is slated for release with OpenOffice 3.0 in September, with the first beta being available in April. OpenOffice is an easy to use Office Suite that can even be used instead of the famous Microsoft Office. Mac users will also benefit from this program since it is now available for Mac OS X via Apache OpenOffice.org Mac.

Pros: This is a rock solid office product with versions compatible on PC, Mac and Linux platforms. After setup, you simply have to change 3 settings to make it fully MS Office compatible so that it creates.doc and.xls files instead of Open Office versions.

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OpenOffice Publisher's Description

OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multiplatform office-productivity suite. It 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. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft's. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various stages of completion. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL Open Source licenses, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. And, because the file format for OpenOffice.org is in XML, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain. See: this page for non windows releases.

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Major Components:

Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book.

Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics.

Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Vector drawing tool Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.

Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org

Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.

• Mac OS X Support
• ODF 1.2 Support
• Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters

What's New:

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 is a Maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 here.

Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.

Only use the original website 'https://www.openoffice.org/download/' to download. The installed software can be verified with the About box (see menu 'Help - About OpenOffice) by comparing the numbers with the reference data on the download webpage (see the text in the light green box). For Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 it has to be 'AOO418m3 Build ID 9803 Rev. 18848f57b6'.

Improvements/Enhancements

• The OpenOffice SDK can now be built with Java 8

Bug Fixes

• Updated dictionaries

Bug Fixes

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• Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements
• Cannot insert .dib pictures in documents
• Cannot connect to MediaWiki in options dialog
• Word Count Dialog: Last digit truncated at the right
• PDF Export crashes for Source Han Sans / Noto CJK fonts
• Fix for 'The Password is incorrect. The file cannot be opened.'
• Updated DejaVu fonts
• Replaced Quicktime with MacAVF
• Issue with layout of dialog 'Solver'
• AOO Writer - Spellchecker: glitch
• For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla.

Language Support

• New and Updated Translations
• There are no new or updated languages.
• New and Updated Dictionaries

New Dictionaries

• There are no new dictionaries

Updated Dictionaries

• Asturian (ast) *
• Danish (da) *
• English (en-GB)
• Lithuanian (lt) *

* If you upgrade your installation of AOO you might find older dictionaries still installed. Be sure to remove them.

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see the download webpage (click the language drop-down-box).

/pages-for-mac-os-high-sierra.html. Platform Support

Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as for the previous OpenOffice 4.x releases:

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• Windows
• macOS
• Linux 32-bit (RPM and DEB)
• Linux 64-bit (RPM and DEB)

Known Issues

For macOS users

• Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 may be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in macOS X. This is a feature to help guard against malware on Mac systems. The Apache OpenOffice disk images are signed by Apache as required by Apple, but Gatekeeper may still be triggered. If that happens, please follow the below steps.
• For Mac OS X up to 10.11 'El Capitan': There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the Mac support article
• For Mac OS X 10.12 'Sierra' and up: In Finder, Control-click or right click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of contextual menu that appears. Click Open in the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password. This is needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.
• Due to a known bug in Oracle Java installations of Apache OpenOffice on OSX that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8. If not able to upgrade to Java 9 then install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This will allow the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.

For Windows Users

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• Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 supports Java 8 (32-bit), which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.

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