I hate to burst your bubble but AW is not the little known program you appear to think it is. I've been producing newsletters with Appleworks since the days of the Apple //. Currently, I do newsletters for two organizations and Anne Cartwright does the Louisville Computer Society's newsletter in AW.
I use AW spreadsheet's and maintain a couple of AW databases, too. It's a great program but version 6 in OS X is less so! on 1/7/03 11:30 PM, Tony LaFemina at remacs at optonline.net wrote: > Allan Atherton wrote: > >> Tony LaFemina <remacs at optonline.net> wrote: >> >>> ... I can do things with an AppleWorks spreadsheet that you can't do with >>> Excel. >>> >> >> Except give the file to a client in business or government. >> >>> ... How many AppleWorks users in the group are aware you can do page layouts >>> with AppleWorks? >>> >> >> I did a newsletter for several years with ClarisWorks and then AppleWorks. >> It had two-columns, graphics and photos, and linked text boxes with flowed >> text crossing from column to column and page to page. >> >>> Whether Office is better than AppleWorks or not, isn't the point. If you >>> have >>> a need to communicate with PC's, I think you should get a PC, rather than >>> try >>> to make a Mac look like a PC. >>> >> >> Office is a lot cheaper, and really nice. >> >> Allan Atherton >> >> > In response to your first remark above, let me clue you in to a little > known fact. If business wanted your files bad enough, they'd buy a > Macintosh computer if they had to and hire someone to duplicate it on a > PC. A long time ago the U.S. Government wanted to buy electronic > equipment from H-P, but they wanted it in a different housing than H-P > offered to the commercial market. H-P said get lost, and the government > went ahead and bought it anyway. Not many companies could get away with > that kind of stuff. They just had what the government wanted badly. > > Regarding your next remark. You're one of a few that has actually done > desktop publishing with AppleWorks. If you get a chance, find out how > many others in the group know how. As far as Office being really nice... > Whatever pops your cork. That kind of stuff is, more or less, a personal > preference. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
