I have Appleworks 5. I also have a copy of Appleworks 6. What are the pros and cons of the upgrade?
AppleWorks 5: Very stable. Fast. Comes with lots of fast file translation gizmos, Claris XTND and DataViz. Fully supports SYLK format. Fully supports all files created by previous vers of MacWrite, MacWrite Pro, ClarisWorks & AppleWorks. Doesn't have newer translators for MS word and excel formats. I never seen it corrupt a spreadsheet or database.
AppleWorks 6: Mostly stable. MUCH slower than AW5. Has a smaller graphics library than aw5. Has different specialty fonts than aw5. Database randomly looses font type and size attributes. Has the same math library crash bugs as aw 5. Silently truncates long formulas (126 chars) (so it's not compatible with all AppleWorks spreadsheets or databases) Comes with far fewer file translation gizmos, that are all slow. No longer supports Claris XTND, so the old translators are useless. and the old DataViz translators are likewise unusable. Has translators for the newer MS word and excel formats. Can no longer import or export standard SYLK format. Still no support for CSV files. Has no telecom module. Comes with no manual, either printed or pdf. Colormatching is broken. Corrupts spreadsheets and databases now and then, expecially while saving them to disk. "Web page" output is broken.
Bottom line: AppleWorks is a cute low-end multi function app. There are now freeware and shareware products that blow its doors off. Apple should be slapped silly for its lack of development and support of what used to be a fine product.
If you must use 'em, install both. Use AW 5 for normal stuff. Use AW 6 when you just absolutely have to translate a newer Word or Excel file. If you use AW 6, back up your spreadsheets and databases OFTEN... AW 6 *will* eventually corrupt them.
FWIW, - Dan.
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