On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:26 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have text wrangler on the iBook, and use it for my html. I have >> tried doing documents in Appleworks and save them as word doc's but no >> one has had success opening them. thus office.mac. > > AppleWorks is ancient history. It was ancient history in 2002 when it > was renamed AppleWorks from ClarisWorks. It never exported Word .DOC > files very well, but it could output usable .RTF files. I wouldn't > recommend using AppleWorks at all on Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard" ... > It was buggy even half a decade ago.
Maybe that is part of my problem.?? I'll try the RTF that some have suggested, but at least word/excel will be on the computer if needed. Dave > > I converted all my ClarisWorks/AppleWorks word processing documents to > .RTF and imported them into Pages, then output them as Pages > documents. Only a few documents created with mixed module combinations > (CW/AW word-paint-vector graphics) caused me any grief ... and none of > those were needed in an editable form, so I just output them as PDFs > and tossed the originals. > > I detest Office. I'll use it when needed ... I have an alternative > boot disk that I can run it from if it's absolutely necessary ... but > it's so buggy and loads so much crap onto a system that unless I was > dependent on it I'd rather not have it installed. I have no need of > Word ... PowerPoint, Excel, or Entourage neither ... so why should I > waste the disk space on this crap? > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
