![]() Can you give an honest reason why Microsoft should use the OASIS OpenDocument standard? Looking at market share, I don’t see any reason it would be important to them, and technologically speaking I’m not aware of any way that format is supperior to their own open XML format. Well, considering that ISO standard was just approved less than a month ago, I had to look it up. A decent office suite SHOULD after all support interoperability standards if it is to be at all useable. I believe that Office 2007 is not compliant with ISO standard ISO/IEC 26300. With the new pricing model the price is even reasonable, $149 for Home edtion which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. I don’t do much word processing in Windows anymore, I do most of that on my mac with Nisus Writer Express, but this is the first MS Office product I’ve liked since Office 97, and having played with the beta I fully intend to buy it. I’ve been playing with it all day, and while it did take a little getting used to just because of the way it looks, after about 20 minutes I found myself really enjoying it. I haven’t used KOffice in a year or so, so I don’t want to make baseless comparisons, but I can honestly say that from my experience, no other major word processor has tried to change the standard gui in decades. This is nice and easy to understand, with all the basic functions grouped together in an intelligent manner, without cluttering up the screen. I can’t think of any word processor which doesn’t have all of the same functions in a toolbar for you on startup, this is just a different way of presenting them. I also don’t feel it’s throwing a bunch of options in my face, since if you have the standard home ribbon open, it just shows you the basic stuff: clipboard, font, paragraph, styles, and editing. ![]() It has all the basic stuff in little tabs I guess so they stay out of your way, unlike the old system where if you needed many of these functions you had to make a customized toolbar or fill the screen with a million buttons, at which point you start getting confused which button does which. The ribbon seems the opposite of cluttered. This application will be welcomed by writers and content creators who need to quickly retrieve multiple words with the same meaning.I don’t think I’m following you here. Additionally, this application seems to integrate well with services-enabled applications such as Safari, enabling users to look up selected words right from the Services menu.Īs a thesaurus application, Nisus Thesaurus for Mac works well, despite its basic interface. The program returns results quickly and extensively, which is a big plus for this type of application. Users can see the results of prior searches by clicking a drop-down arrow in the search box. Information shown includes the pronunciation and word origins in addition to the meaning. Clicking on individual words displays a full definition in an additional lower box. Above the words, additional descriptions further organize the results. A left-hand menu organizes them by category, while a right-hand menu lists the individual words. ![]() ![]() After entering a word and clicking the "Search" button, the program brings up word options. Fortunately, its main search bar is at the top of the window, which is where most similar programs have them located. The program's main menu lacks graphics or creative design. ![]() Nisus Thesaurus for Mac downloads as a ZIP archive with no installation needed. Its features add to those for spelling correction, already present in most Mac writing applications. As a basic application for finding similar words, Nisus Thesaurus for Mac adds some functions that most users would find helpful, especially those who are writers. ![]()
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