I agree that paying big bucks for M$ Office for many people can be a
mistake. However, we live in a windows world. I recently redid my resume
and it was done of course on a windows machine in Word 98. When I tried
to open it in AW 6, much of the formatting was lost even though I have the
MacLinkPlus translators. Bullets, font abnormalities, etc. were common
place. If I had a recent Office version I doubt I would have had any
problems. When I started putting bullets back it also changed the font and
the size of the text. Very strange.
The last word program that I used was 5. C'est la Vie! Also, these days
you can buy Word as a standalone (or bundled with Entourage).
Macroviruses only infect IF one is not careful. To each his own.
>Jack wrote:
>>
>> "Amber" wrote.....
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>> As long as we are being politically Macorrect, I'd like to say that I also
>> hate to say that I have been using the fabulous Microsoft Intellimouse for
>> over a year on my iMac upon which, I hate to say, I run Microsoft Internet
>> Explorer, Microsoft Outlook Express, and, I hate to say, Microsoft Office.
>> --
>> Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>
>IE and OE are free, but how much did you pay for Office? Have you
>compared the cost of Appleworks (bundled free) and say WordPerfect3.5
>(free) with the cost of MS Office? And how many of the features on your
>paid version of Office which you use regularly are not available on AW
>or WP. Certainly if you are a power user of word processing,
>spreadsheets and presentations Office may be a wise investment.
>
>Have you looked at the amount of RAM that each of these app's require?
>(on MacOS9.1 the programmers' suggested memory allocations are: Word
>9Mb, Excel 6Mb, PowerPoint 10.2Mb, Appleworks5 4.6Mb, Corel WordPerfect 9Mb)
>And have you considered the potential cost/damage that macroviruses may have?
>
>These are just a couple of other things to consider when alternatives to
>Office are discussed.
>Chris
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