The demise of Appleworks is to me inexplicable. It's difficult to
imagine that even if the application required a complete rewrite to
be an ongoing product that it would have been significantly more
costly or less profitable than the resources that went into Pages and
Numbers. I still use Appleworks for most of my day to day
productivity tasks on my current MacBook Pro - seven computers and
four operating systems after I first used the program. I have
discovered Bean
( www.bean-osx.com ) to be a handy word processor leveraging the text
handling tools in OS X.4. I use MS Office entirely as reader
applications to open .doc, .xls and the occasional and execrable
Powerpoint document sent to me by clients - never to create content.
With the advent of the .docx file format which can only be opened
with OpenOffice on a Mac - not by any Microsoft program - my
motivation for spending a dime with Microsoft has diminished to nil.
At 11:38 AM -0400 3/25/09, b_s-wilk wrote:
Apple has made the same kind of changes where their original
software worked just fine. Pages is not a good replacement for basic
AppleWorks. TextEdit is not longer a text editor; saving as *.txt
isn't choice.
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E. Riley Casey
Silver Spring MD
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301-608-0789 fx
301-440-2923 shoe phone
Entertainment Sound Production ( http://www.ESPsound.com )
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