I use both. Entourage for Exchange access and NeoOffice for Excel and Word files etc. I only drop back to Microsoft Excel/Word if there is file that doesn’t behave righ in NeoOffice (which to be honest, isn’t that often). I find NeoOffice runs faster on a MBP then MSO 2004.

Oh, one more thing. The new NeoOffice 2.1 looks waaaaaaay better than the previous version. They made it Pwetty(tm).

NeoOffice is pretty cool. I use it on my iMac, and use OpenOffice on the apartment laptop.

However, one place it falls down severely (as does OpenOffice, which it is based off of) is tracking changes. You don’t get MS Office’s pretty bubbles you can stick wherever you want near a change; you only get footnotes and nearly-unusable notes that you can’t see unless you do a rain dance. (Unless I’m a fool and doing something wrong.)

Then again, you can’t beat Free. Well, you can, but no one pays you to use software.