What is Neat Office?

Anixx · Sep 7, 2023

Just saw it in the App Store and am curious what is it? A rebranding of OpenOffice? Something with little use? Or a powerful tool?

cereberus · Sep 8, 2023

Anixx said:
Just saw it in the App Store and am curious what is it? A rebranding of OpenOffice? Something with little use? Or a powerful tool?

Download it, test it and tell us?

Procrastinus · Sep 8, 2023

Reviews aren't great.

wiganken · Sep 8, 2023

LibreOffice seems to be the No. 1 alternative to MS Office. I think Neat Office is a newcomer whereas LibreOffice has been around for some while and is more developed and stable than Neat Office I would imagine. It also offers more modules including Database for one.

Anixx · Sep 8, 2023

cereberus said:
Download it, test it and tell us?

Why the Store des not tell who is the producer of this software? Anonymous?

Anixx · Sep 8, 2023

Okay, so I have just installed it. It is a rebranding of LibreOffice. Plus, the icons did not appear in the start menu for some reason after installation. I have LibreOffice already installed.

jimbo45 · Sep 8, 2023

wiganken said:
LibreOffice seems to be the No. 1 alternative to MS Office. I think Neat Office is a newcomer whereas LibreOffice has been around for some while and is more developed and stable than Neat Office I would imagine. It also offers more modules including Database for one.

Better compatability is via WPS office - rarely mentioned on these Forums -- maybe it's a nagging dislike of Chinese Software -- it works rather well . Most Chinese developed software works OK (even if the provenance might be a bit dubious).

If you want a Free database system just install MariaDB / MySQL -- works brilliantly (On Windows too) and if you install the windows MariaDB / MySQL OBDC driver (Free too) you can get queries direct into EXCEL spreadsheets too.

e.g

(Heidsql also good for interrogating MariaDB / MySQL) but sometimes you want to get stuff directly into a spreadsheet on one go).

Here's Heidisql on the same database table

I thought Neat office meant no paper / coffee cups, beer glasses etc and emptied bins / waste baskets.

cheers
jimbo

Anixx · Sep 8, 2023

A lot of limitations compared to LibreOffice: no way to insert pictures into documents, for instance (they want money to unblock it).

Anixx · Sep 8, 2023

Again I find out that App Store is useless for installing software. At best, you see something interesting in it and go search for non-appstore version, which is usually newer and more feature-rich. In this case, just install LibreOffice, that's it.