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OpenOffice has a quite nice formula editor and is a full-featured "productivity suite". I made the switch a while ago and never really regreted it.

rarefluid:
i guess you dont write alot of equations then!

I don't cut-paste them from mathematica, true. It may not be the easiest/fastest to use, but I've seen worse (read: MS Word).

stefan, no idea, i never really used mathematica much.
rarefluid, correction: word 2003 and lower.

stefan, you got me curious, so i tried: if i "copy as.. MathML" from mathematics 5.2 and paste in word 2007, it's a working word equation that i can edit and all that, and looks pretty good, or so it seems. not sure if it does all you want though, my formulas are never very complex.

skrebbel: *downloads office 2007*

Is there similar support for Maple?

Talking about formula editors LyX has a handy one and can export to TeX.

skrebbel: I can't get it to work in Word 2008. If i just paste the Math ML it render as .. text. Same problem if i try to paste it in the equation editor. How did you do it?

Obviously you never really worked in a professional workspace before typing that cluster of characters

stefan, hmm that's weird. i just paste it, and it's an equation editor formula. plainly into an empty word document. no idea. word 2007 NL for non-commercial use.

I used Word 2008 (os x).. I guess that is the "problem" oh well.. LaTeX it is :(

I was working on a school project with NeoOffice (a mac port of OpenOffice) and well, let's just say that if it were a person, I'd never talk to him again.

Now we're using LaTex for the same project...

I found neooffice was fine. But then again, I'd prefer office 6. It gets the job done without all the extra crap :)