Darcy James Argue wrote:
Also because it's a dead end -- no longer supported or updated.
While I can see why that might be an issue, am I the only one who sees
irony that on a list where the complaints about annual upgrade fees of
Finale is constantly complained about, the opposite is also
I'm a WordPerfect die-hard who switched to Word about a year ago when
I got a new computer and got tired of having to use MacLinkPlus to
translate every file I sent anyone. Here's my 2-cents.
I recently upgraded from 10.3.something to 10.4.1.
WordPerfect 3.5e, the last version that existed
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board.
What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X.
I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly
refuses to create a printer on my system. All the other Office
components will
Pages, part of iWork. Great word processing program.
ThomaStudios wrote:
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board.
What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X.
I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly
refuses to
Pages is great, and inexpensive, but it definitely takes some getting
used to. It helps if you're familiar with InDesign, Quark, etc, since
Pages is actually more of a baby desktop publishing app than a
traditional word processor.
It's especially good for mixing text and images.
- Darcy
On Jun 12, 2005, at 4:15 PM, ThomaStudios wrote:
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board.
What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X.
I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly
refuses to create a printer on my
Thanks Darcy (and the others who chimed in). I actually didn't know
about Pages, but will check it out. You also brought up InDesign,
which I own vCS2. I didn't even give that a thought. Ah, there's hope
for me yet!
Thanks again to all who responded.
J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
ThomaStudios wrote:
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board.
What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS X. I
would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which steadfastly
refuses to create a printer on my system. All the other Office
I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out was
that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in about 3 years or so.
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J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
West Linn OR
www.thomastudios.com
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On Jun 12, 2005, at 2:33 PM,
As you probably gathered, WordPerfect for Mac was discontinued ages ago.
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 12 Jun 2005, at 6:39 PM, ThomaStudios wrote:
I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out
was that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in
On 12 Jun 2005 at 15:39, ThomaStudios wrote:
I did some superficial research on this, and about I could find out
was that they haven't updated anything for the Mac in about 3 years or
so.
If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem?
I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running
Cause it doesn't run under OS X, it runs under OS 9.
David W. Fenton wrote:
If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem?
I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running Word2K or
Word2K2, of which I have legal copies. Word97 is sufficient for my
needs.
If the 3-year-old
Also because it's a dead end -- no longer supported or updated.
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 12 Jun 2005, at 7:09 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Cause it doesn't run under OS X, it runs under OS 9.
David W. Fenton wrote:
If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem?
I
On 12 Jun 2005 at 16:09, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
If it runs on OS X, why would that be a problem?
I use Word97, myself, even though I could be running Word2K or
Word2K2, of which I have legal copies. Word97 is sufficient for my
needs.
If the 3-year-old
Well, that too.
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Also because it's a dead end -- no longer supported or updated.
- Darcy
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I wasn't the one looking, but it does run under OS 9 Classic, but it's
really not worth the effort. One could get Pages, or even a copy of
Office for OS X, or even Appleworks
I don't think Wordperfect for the Mac has been updated in 5 or more
years. The last release was 3.5 I believe, and it
At 1:15 PM -0700 6/12/05, ThomaStudios wrote:
Once again I'd like to tap the collective wisdom here on the board.
What is everyone's recommended choice for word processing under OS
X. I would like to rid myself of Microsh*t Word 2004, which
steadfastly refuses to create a printer on my
Have you done the usual things, such as Repair Disk Permissions, and
seen if there are any updates to Word that you should install?
John Howell wrote:
Our computers came with MS Office preloaded, so most of us use MS
Word. (The university upgrades us about every 4 years.) The version
I now
WP updates have not been all that significant to the word processor
segment. Most of it has been bells and whistle, spreadsheets, and web
features that personally I never use. I used WP 5.1 for years, and then got
WpWin 8 and have been using that for a long time. There were some minor
PS If you do a lot of file sharing, I suppose the one area not being
up-to-date that could be an issue is the converters. But if it's mostly
in-house I wouldn't worry. You can always use text files.
Ken
At 04:50 PM 6/12/2005, you wrote:
WP updates have not been all that significant to the
Hi J.D.,
There is another nice word processor program called Mariner Write
that a lot of people seem to like. It works in Tiger too and you can
download it and try it first. It will read Word documents and save
to RTF-Word files. It runs about $50.00-60.00 depending on whether
you buy a
Thanks Karen. I'll check that out as well.
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J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
West Linn OR
www.thomastudios.com
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On Jun 12, 2005, at 5:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi J.D.,
There is another nice word processor program called Mariner Write
Hi all,
This is something that's been bothering me for a long time, and I
thought I'd ask the list if there's any solution:
How do I PERMANENTLY get rid of the damn Adobe Acrobat PDF Maker
Toolbar in Word (v11.1 for Mac OS X)?
If I go to Tools - Customize - Customize Toolbars Menus, I can
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:51:12 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never asked for this toolbar in the first place, and I can't seem to
figure out how to banish it.
Found at:
http://macobserver.com/columns/rantsandraves/2004/20040709.shtml
You can remove it (from Office 2004) by
At 4:01 PM -0800 3/22/05, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
You can remove it (from Office 2004) by deleting the following files:
Easy to do and it works! Thanks.
Shortcut - copy the file name at the end of each file reference - just copy
PDFMaker.xla from /Applications/Microsoft Office
Thanks, Brad. I owe you one. (I shoulda asked years ago!)
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 22 Mar 2005, at 7:01 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:51:12 -0500, Darcy James Argue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never asked for this toolbar in the first place, and I can't
Eh, you just owe me for the five minutes it took me to refine my
Google search to 'remove PDF Maker toolbar os-x'.
By the way, that search incorporated my two favorite little-known
Google tricks (this thread is OT, so I can talk about whatever I want!
:-P):
1. Adding a hyphen between terms (as
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