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Anyone know any free excel alternative for mac?

  • 09-07-2008 10:54am
    #1
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭


    I don't need a full office suite, just something for spreadsheets and calculations....

    Or should I just buy office or iwork?


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  • #2
    magooly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭magooly


    I have used this in the past

    http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php


  • #3
    fade2che
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭fade2che


    Open Office is a free and open source option.
    http://www.openoffice.org/
    You have the option when installing to only install the spreadsheet application (called Calc)

    If you dont have it allready you may also need X11,
    http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/X11.html

    Good luck and happy free spreadsheeting!


  • #4
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    I don't need a full office suite, just something for spreadsheets and calculations....

    Or should I just buy office or iwork?

    Open and Neo are the obvious free solutions; the lads beat me to it.

    If your really pushed, Excel is available as a stand alone, a bit of leg work and you should turn it up fairly dirt cheap. I have seen it for low enough; try ensure it's the 2004 edition to be sure.


  • #5
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,696 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    fade2che wrote: »
    Open Office is a free and open source option.
    http://www.openoffice.org/
    You have the option when installing to only install the spreadsheet application (called Calc)

    If you dont have it allready you may also need X11,
    http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/X11.html

    Good luck and happy free spreadsheeting!

    I couldn't get open office to work for me using X11, my imac really dosen't like to do things with x11 for some reason....
    must try and download neo office again...it failed to mount the last time....


  • #6
    forbairt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    if you've got access all the time from your machine you could use google docs online as well .. it'll allow you to save the file locally to various formats as well.


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  • #7
    sedohre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭sedohre


    magooly wrote: »
    I have used this in the past

    http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

    I had trouble with Open office on my mac too, so I use neo office, it suits me


  • #8
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    The 2008 edition won't run VBA scripts so be careful if that's important for you. OO.o is probably the best, and you don't need X11 any more to run it.


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