NeoOffice just saved me two and half hours of work

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Have you ever had Microsoft Word telling you that it can't open your file due to corruption or that it wants to save a recovered version? If so, you know the pain of rewriting and reformatting the whole file. An alternative is to ignore Word and try opening it in a different program. Often I find that NeoOffice (or OpenOffice for non-Mac users) - free to download - will open the same file without complaint. You can then resave and open in Word, or copy and paste the contents from NeoOffice into a new Word doc.

Tip: If you are experiencing problems viewing graphs and figures in Word (e.g. Word:Mac 2004) then NeoOffice and OpenOffice can help you with this as well.

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  1. Chris Routledge7 December 2009 at 12:00

    Actually OpenOffice.org does run on the Mac now. I prefer Go-OO though, because it is more compatible with MS stuff. Neo-Office, which is prettiest, is based on the Go-OO code I think. Great to have these choices I think.

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  2. Anthony Levings7 December 2009 at 12:10

    Thanks for the comment. I probably didn't make clear the bit about OpenOffice on Mac. I was really giving the Windows and Linux guys an alternative, since NeoOffice is Mac only. NeoOffice was the first version to run natively on OS X and so I've personally kept using this although I have OpenOffice installed as well. Also - just noticed they are developing a mobile version for iPhone users.

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  3. Chris Routledge7 December 2009 at 13:00

    iPhone version is great news. If they get it right, that will be terrific.

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  4. Anthony Levings7 December 2009 at 16:48

    The other thing NeoOffice does is display charts and figures when Mac:Word 2004 refuses to. There can be a blank box in Word (which you can sometimes double click and opens in MS Graph or such-like) but open it in NeoOffice and there the graph is embedded in the the file as it should be.

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