Adios Excel

I’ve been a loyal Excel user since the very first version came out in for the Mac in 1985. However, I’ve found the current version of Excel for the Mac (2011) seems to be a little buggy, especially when working with spreadsheets that are on remote servers, a task I do often. The buggy issues manifest themselves in the spinning wheel of wait every time you do a cut/paste or some other operation. With no help on the MS Excel forums, I looked for an alternative and NeoOffice seemed like a suitable program that was designed for Macs. Plus, at $10 the price was right.

I’ve been using NeoOffice’s spreadsheet app for over a month and I am very pleased. The only advantage Excel has over NeoOffice is that Excel looks prettier. But NeoOffice works better and is much faster. When I need to print pretty spreadsheets I use Numbers. But when I have heavy spreadsheet work to do, NeoOffice is what I now use.

84 Mac Guy about NeoOffice