trinity - NeoOffice now supports Office 2007 Word documents and Excel macros

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CLARA, CA—26 February 2007— NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access through the NeoOffice Early Access Program. NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access contains a number of unique features including:

Opening, editing, and saving of Microsoft Office 2007 Word documents
Execution of Visual Basic for Applications macros in Excel documents
Support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets
The latest features from OpenOffice.org 2.1
And more!

The NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access release will allow Mac users to utilize Microsoft Office 2007 Word documents prior to the announced availability of translators from Microsoft. Also, with Microsoft's announced intention to remove VBA support in Microsoft Office Mac 2007, NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access is one of the only available ongoing solutions for Mac users who use VBA macros in their Excel documents. Support for interoperability with Microsoft Office 2007 Word documents and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is drawn from the ooo-build project, a branch of OpenOffice.org that includes several features which Sun has not yet integrated up-stream. ooo-build is a collaboration between many individuals and vendors spearheaded by Novell. Leveraging the ongoing contributions from ooo-build, NeoOffice.org is pleased to deliver the most compatible office productivity application suite for Mac OS X for today and beyond. Starting on 27 March 2007, free downloads of NeoOffice 2.1 will be available. Until then, downloads of NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access will only be available to NeoOffice Early Access members and subscribers. So if you want to try it out now, you can purchase a NeoOffice Early Access membership or subscription by visiting the NeoOffice Early Access page.

NeoOffice 2.1 Early Access is a test release and may have some undiscovered bugs that may cause NeoOffice to crash. If you feel that you need software that has been heavily tested, we recommend that you use a commercially-supported product like Microsoft Office. Since NeoOffice is developed by volunteers and tested by users, we expect that users will find crashing or other serious bugs. We strongly recommend that you save your work frequently so that if you encounter a crashing bug, you will not lose much data. If you have any support questions, please visit the NeoWiki or ask your question in the NeoOffice Support forum. Also, please post any bugs that you find in Bugzilla so that we can continue to improve NeoOffice. About NeoOffice.org NeoOffice.org is an open source project dedicated to delivering a first class free software office productivity suite for Mac OS X. Based on OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database applications. In addition to all the features of OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice features a fully native Mac OS X user interface, Spotlight integration, drag and drop, and other features to provide the ultimate Mac OS X user experience. With nearly 500,000 downloads each month, NeoOffice is the leading open source office productivity suite for Mac OS X. For more information, visit http://www.neooffice.org. NeoOffice is a registered trademark of Planamesa, Inc. in the United States. Novell is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. OpenOffice.org is a registered trademark of Team OpenOffice.org, e.V. Microsoft, Office, OpenXML, and Visual Basic for Applications are registered trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. Mac OS X is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All other third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.