Now you made me curious. I really never compared the Appleworks with anything. I have been out of the job situation since the eighties. We then still had claris. And I only used and still use it for word processing. It just seems to have been sitting around so quietly. All the fuss is being made over the iLife et al. I guess i shall check a little into Appleworks capabilities or the lack thereof. Is anybody out there who can tell me of any comparisons of different word processing programs so one could have an overview? I don't much care to inflict a microsoft program on my mac, but an honest appraisal I would approve of. Jerry put that free Open Office on my Mac once, but since i have upgraded to Panther it won't launch, and I have to get that fixed before I can even see what something similar to "Office" would look like. Many make a lot over "Word", but not ever having been in touch with it, I have no idea what that would do and where it stands in the hierarchy of word processing programs. Marta On Mar 28, 2004, at 2:10, Tony LaFemina wrote:
> Marta Edie wrote: > >> Tony, >> We found and implemented the upgrade to 6.2.9, but now tell me why >> you think it is downgraded? I use it primarily to write documents, so >> I cannot tell what the other modules do, the only regret I have is, >> that it does not have a German dictionary to consult, while it has >> French ( mind you after that freedom disaster >> !!- I still haven't gotten over the freedom fries and wanting to >> change Louisville into a city with a more anglified name!) as well as >> Italian and Spanish dictionary attached to it. Do tell me why it is >> looking prettier ??? and apparently in your opinion doing less? >> Marta >> > All I can tell you is what I've been told. They eliminated macros and > removed several features from the graphics part of the program. I > don't know if they made any improvements to the other modules. > > I don't know why Apple removed macro support. I think it was a real > work horse. It gave you the ability to select several menu commands > and put them all in one Function button. Plus it made animations > possible. As for the graphics features, I don't think anyone would > miss them. Very few people, if any, use AppleWorks for image editing. > Most of the people I know only use the program for Word Processing and > maybe a database. > > -- > Tony LaFemina > When you want to do more than just buy software > http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html > mailto:remacs at optonline.net > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
