NeoOffice App Reviews

I just installed it and want my money back. The scrolling is ridiculously slow compared to other Mac apps - just compare the scroll you get in a browser or OpenOffice to this. NeoOffice is really suggish. Why is the default to show text borders around all the text - that is really ugly. When pressing Cmd-Shift G within the file open dialog, you can’t press Cmd-V to paste in a file path from somewhere else like all the other Mac apps let you do. Luckily right-click paste menu works there.

Since I can’t log in to the forum to report this, having purchased this on the Mac App Store, I’ll report it here. The only thing keeping me from using this in my everyday work is a Spreadsheet glitch with pasting multiple lines of plain text, which lines are separated by carriage returns. In LibreOffice and OpenOffice, these lines are pasted into the spreadsheet in sequential rows. In NeoOffice, the lines of text are pasted in every other row, no matter what source formatting I select in the paste dialogue. The main reason I don’t use the other two is because they are buggy, and LibreOffice hangs with certain formulas in my spreadsheets. NeoOffice is more stable.

After reading some positive reviews, NeoOffice sounded like a no-brainer. But, after trying it, it’s horrible. It never reports fonts correctly as you select things and move the cursor around. It might say “Calibri 12” when in fact it’s “Calibri 16”. A big part of why I got this app was because it claims to be highly interoperable with Microsoft Office. From what I can tell, it is -barely- compatible with Microsoft Office. I was unable to save a .docx file because it gave me all kinds of "internal error”-type of messages. Fonts look very different from Word. Another reason I got this app is because it’s supposedly a native MacOS app (whereas its predecessor LibreOffice, is a more generic Java app), but the fonts look horrible, and two-finger scrolling is super chunky rather than smooth like it is in REAL native MacOS apps. Don’t waste your time with this app.

The official webpage details the changes, but as an ordinary user I could hardly suspect that upgrade of a software would remove functions, not add them. I needed the functionality of Base that is not, surprisingly, supported by this version. 10 dollars lost. Very upset.

There is no support for this software other than reading pamplets the users have wrote which is fine but if you are just starting out with databases it is no help to you as I have found the almost $30 way. Oh and by not crashing, I think they meant to put, it crashes frequently and for no reason.

I purchased this to open and edit Microsoft Word document but I am not satisfied. The MS doc when opened using this app the content looks weired, scattered and tables, borders etc are not on right place. Overall, this application does not solve my purpose. I wish I wish if there any to get the money back.

I have been a Mac user since 1984 and have been using NeoOffice since 2008 to support an ESL ministry. I have used NeoOffice to write hundreds of bilingual pages in Spanish and English. I also use NeoOffice spreadsheet. I have no need nor desire to pay for MS bloated junk. The addition of multiple language support in NeoOffice 2014 was one of the deciding factors in purchasing the App Store version. Another factor was 64-bit support. Why should you get this app? The main reason is the dedicated passion of the authors who continually strive to improve the software. They regularly provided updates to the original product and I am confident they will do the same for the App Store product. The one caveat I want new Mac users to understand is that NeoOffice is a Mac specific port of OpenOffice with various enhancements. Thus the authors are contrainted when it comes to specific feature enhancement requests. For me and many others, the features provided in NeoOffice have been more than sufficient to meet our needs. As OpenOffice evolves and improves so too will NeoOffice.

I purchased this app because it has multilingual support and interface, so my kids who are not fluent in English could use for school work. The word processor is not easy to use, especially when you add images. You really need to put in an effort because the images tend to disappear or move when you add text. It’s hard to go back to something I hated on Word 97 and forgot about after I started using Pages. Opening .pptx files works, but the the presentation looks different. Keynote does a better job. But the worst thing - it keeps freezing. It has a lot of potential and I really thought I’d love this app…

I was using Apple’s Numbers and needed something in Excel (Apple was too arrogant to convert for their customer’s convenience) so I bought NeoOffice and imported the original Excel that I had. It looked good, but for some odd reason, it didn’t come up with the same math as Numbers, although the formula matched. For example; the formula from different fields had the amounts 176471 * 13% = 232,941. I don’t know how a percentage wind up being larger than the original number. Even when I divided by 10 to be 23,294.1 that was still wrong, compared to when I calculated the original formula. 176471 * .13 = 22,914. Where the extra 1000 mysteriously came from??? You tell me. This was from my 1st spreadsheet with this software. If I’m going to continue using it (not very likely) it’ll be for number storage only, and no formulae. I will be demanding a refund.

I paid for the app, but the download I got is the “free” version which will not save. Now What??

NeoOffice is excellent. I have used Excel spreadsheets on Window boxes for extremely complex accounting computaions for many years. So I have a good idea as to what is required for business purposes. On my Mac, I use NeoOffice Calc, which satisfies all my requirements. I have never had any problem converting to/from Excel format. NeoOffice works perfectly with OSX, Libre Office does not. Numbers appears to be useless for complex business computations. NeoOffice offers excellent foreign language support.

I have been using NeoOffice since 2005 and have been quite happy with it. the updates are self installing and make it easy for me to keep my version current.

its design is nice better than open office. but i payed $30 for the new version on app store. and it keeps having istallation issues.

I’ve been an OpenOffice user (now Libre Office) from back in they days it was called Star Office. As such, I have many documents saved over time that are in older formats. NeoOffice fails to load many of these. Even documents saved just a year or two ago as .ods files could not be opened. LibreOffice opened them all and looks just as good as NeoOffice. I was really hopeful that NeoOffice would live up to the claim of being more “Mac like”. It’s just not as as good as Libre Office.

Sneaky unprofessional bums. I’ve been using this for years. First it was free, then they asked for $10 recently which I paid. Now, I was right in the middle of a very important docoment and when I went to save it I got a message that “the free version doesn’t allow you to save documents” and to download the new version for mac. Since I was stuck and desperately needed to save the document, I followed the link and downloaded the app and paid them their $29.00. The app did not download and just continues to say”installing” but is not working, so they ripped me off for $29 and now I have to waste more precious time not only trying to figure out how to keep my document (I guess I’ll have to print and scan…) but also to try to get my $29 back. DO NOT RECOMMEND. Lloyd Munjack

NeoOffice is fast and stable for handling the large number of legacy StarOffice documents that I need to deal with in my day-to-day work. In addition to outstanding Mac integration, and fully automatic updates from the App Store, it offers better backward compatibility than some other office suites from the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice ecosystem. While it offers less in the form of extensibilty, this gives it a more streamlined startup and better stability.

I have used NeoOffice for a few years. Never had a problem with compatibility with anyone that I work with. It is a great product, especially for the lower cost.

For the most part this app is better than Open Office on Mac because it is more stable just understand that buying this doesn’t give you any support. They claim it costs too much so they suggest that you look for help on Google wich might work but since they claim it is more stable I have to believe they changed some code and in that case the answer likely would’t be the same. For instance after using a filter the only rows left on the table are the ones that have data in them so if you want to add to the table you have to add rows every time. There is no where online that tells me how to fix this, I have look for eight hours now and Open Offices’ own support is almost non existent. I bought this becuase I thought that paying for something awarded you some support, I was wrong. Aside from that though I guess I will have to find another way to find data easier. Don’t get me wrong I like the app, it overall works great just don’t expect any support.

One of the main reasons I have an app like this installed on my computer is to work on shared DOCX files. However, all too often, opening those files in NeoOffice results in an unreadable document. (For instance, much of the text is crossed out and there are numerous page breaks where there are none in the original document.) In my experience Apple’s Pages app does a much better job of preserving the formatting of DOCX files. For this reason I have basically stopped using this app.

I tried to open some LibreOffice presentation with NeoOfice and experience was very painful. Editing with bullet ponints and sub-bullet points was hard. The format of the document refused to play to my liking, and was painfully hard to change. There is a free version of the LibreOffice that you can download for Mac. If you are going to use NeoOffice to view LibreOffice documents, I would advise against spending money.