On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > Does anyone else use the mail application in OS X.2? I am going to > give it a try. What do you think of it? > I currently use Entourage. I am trying to ween myself away from some > of the MS stuff, with the exception being Word and Excel.
I use Mail.app for almost all my mail these days. It works fine, but doesn't have the fine-tuning features I'd like. I switched to it from Mulberry, because Mulberry didn't have an X version at the time. They do now, and I may switch back. (I've been playing with the X version of Mulberry for a few days.) I like using the integrated address book and spelling checker in X so I don't have umpteen copies of each sitting on my hard drive, and I won't use a mail program that doesn't use the built-in system services. I have Entourage on my machine, but am turned off by how lackluster it seems with IMAP mail. > Is anyone successfully using Apple Works with Word and Excel > documents? I have tried it, but something didn't quite work, so that > put an end to my attempt. The spreadsheet in Appleworks is adequate for most things, but it's certainly not in the same league as Excel. For complex spreadsheet work, there's only one choice. The translators between Word and Appleworks sort of work, but they tend to miss fancy stuff like tables and embedded graphics. The only time I use Word is when I want to read a document sent to me by someone else. For some reason, I find the program irritating because I can never get it to behave the way I want. This may be because I've never been patient enough with it to learn how to adjust many of the preferences to be as I prefer rather than the defaults. It's also sssllllooowwww on complicated documents. For complicated or technical documents, I use LaTeX or Mathematica, and Appleworks does all the rest. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
