14 DAY TRIAL // The folks at NeoOffice.org have recently released the third patch for their full-featured suite of office applications. NeoOffice now sports new Media Browser functionality similar to the iLife Media Browser, native floating palettes and, best of all, support for magnify and swipe multitouch trackpad gestures. Click HERE to download and install your NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 3.
NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X, based on the OpenOffice.org office suite. It integrates a bunch of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other office programs, even Microsoft's.
The office applications suite handles Most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files, but also Excel VBA Macros. Version 2.2.3 adds QuickTime video support (Mac OS X 10.4.x and higher only), while import images from scanners and cameras also come in handy, should you need to quickly spice up your school projects, for example. With the latest big release, NeoOffice also brings command-clicking on window titlebar and Mac OS X Leopard grammar checking support.
As far as the latest patches go, the first one issued for V. 2.2.3 fixed a number of PDF exporting problems, while Patch 2 added horizontal scrolling support. At the time the latter was released, NeoOffice.org was announcing its plans to add Media Browser support in the next NeoOffice patch (Patch 3).
Aside the newly added Media Browser functionality, Patch 3 for NeoOffice 2.2.3 adds native floating palettes, support for magnify and swipe multitouch trackpad gestures, but also fixes a number of bugs that applied the wrong characters in some situations or caused the Neo to crash. For example, a crash when one window had Bullets and Table toolbars open and another window does no longer occur once Patch 3 is installed. Which is what you should do right now.
