Are you serious "Bottlenose"? Is 10.5 going to be the last iteration of OS X?
Or are you just being facetious (trivia - facetious, the only word I the English language to use all 5 vowels in alphabetical order - and to use them only once). Neo Office works just fine for me - don't know if I'll take the plunge with iWorks. Harry ps I really liked the original Appleworks on the //e. It was a fine program! Wednesday, October 29, 20088:11 PMRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Numbers should be able to open your Excel export. We have the most >idiotically designed and bloated spreadsheets on the planet and all the ones >I've tried have opened fine. These are ones with multiple tabs, excessively >bloated pages, not too many operands, but lots of connected cells and other >crap. > >Oh, did I say that out loud? > >I started out with MS Works then moved to Claris Works then Apple Works. I >liked the suite idea of programs, but with the new Macs' speed and RAM, >opening several apps ceased to be a problem. Especially when they >communicate with each other so well. Especially Mail, iCal, Address Book, >Pages, Keynote & it's online twin iWeb, Numbers and iPhoto. Hey! I just >named the iLife & iWork packages...hmmm. > >BTW, I can't wait for the upcoming 11.1 "Bottlenose." > >rob > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Anne Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Harry, >> >> In answer to your questions: >> >> 1) Apple has no intentions of updating AW. When the Mac OS takes its >> next major leap forward (maybe out of the cat family and into >> cetacea), I'm pretty sure AW will no longer work. >> >> 2) While I don't have any very complicated AW SSs, I can drag and drop >> the ones I have onto the Numbers icon in the Dock and they open in >> Numbers just fine. Then I just Save As xxxx.numbers. >> >> Likewise I can convert my AW database files to AW SS and drop them >> onto Numbers and the open as Numbers. Of course numbers is a SS and >> not a DB, so it is somewhat limited when compared to a database. >> >> I like iWork because it is reasonably priced ($79) and coordinates so >> well with iLife. Of course if you don't use iLife... >> >> Slowly I am weaning myself away from AW. (AW will always have a warm >> spot in my computer's heart. >> >> Anne Cartwright >> >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >> >> > At last night's LCS meeting I posed a couple of questions about >> > Appleworks: >> > >> > 1) would Appleworks continue to work in future versions of the OS - >> > the >> > answers ranged from I don't know to probably not. >> > >> > 2) I then asked if iWorks Numbers would import Appleworks spread sheet >> > (and I don't remember the answer) >> > >> > >> > So this morning I opened one of my Appleworks spreadsheets with lots >> > of >> > formulas (especially if-then formulas) >> > >> > I saved it as an EXCEL Mac 98, 2001, X, 2004 Spr. (you have to >> > add .xls >> > at the end of the file name) >> > >> > I was able to open the file in Microsoft excel for the Mac but some of >> > the values didn't register (all though all my totals were correct) >> > >> > Next I drug the .xls spreadsheet into NEO Office and voila, everything >> > works exceedingly well! >> > >> > So I am in the process of moving all my Appleworks Spreadsheets to Neo >> > Office (which, btw, is a free program). >> > >> > Harry >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> > be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> > Posting address: [email protected] >> > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: [email protected] >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be October 28 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
