on 1/8/03 12:00 AM, Henri Yandell at bayard at generationjava.com wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> 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. > > Out of interest, why not do the newsletters in HTML so they're readable > online as well as offline? Or does it just not print up well enough, or > problems with printing companies?
I don't publish the newsletters on line. One is mailed to 500 + individuals and the other to 1000. And I don't have enough experience to create the newsletters in HTML and I don't have the time to learn. >> I use AW spreadsheet's and maintain a couple of AW databases, too. > > I'm a big fan of spreadsheets as they allow non-programmers to get close > to custom programs. Endlessly flexible, although in the end they end up as > the cornerstones to terrifying processes. > > How have you found the AW database? Is it able to support multiple users, > or just a single user application? > I was brought up on DBMS' before discovering things like Access, so never > quite know the best uses, just that it seems they only really function > well for 1 user. I maintain the databases for myself - I don't share them. I don't think AW databases support multiple users, but I don't know for sure since I've never tried. Filemaker pro, another apple product, does support multiple users. Local AW/Filemaker guru Bradley Bishop has demoed both programs at LCS meetings in the past. If there is enough interest, I will ask him to come to a future meeting. > >> It's a great program but version 6 in OS X is less so! > Why? Buggy? or did Apple remove functionality? As I said, when I first started this thread, Apple removed Macro capabilities in AW 6 when used in OS X and severely altered it's button bar as to make it a dysfunctional feature, as far as I'm concerned. Harry > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
