James Wilde wrote:
On Jan 14, 2010, at 23:49 , Keith N. McKenna wrote:
The 'bad' thing about Works was that nobody as far as I can remember
ever had a conversion routine for Works->their product and absolutely
not their product->Works, so that a Works user was totally isolated
from the rest of the population. Even on the same system, if you
have some of your documents in Works format and some in another -
Office or OpenOffice - you can't easily convert from one to the
other. I don't know - since I haven't used Works since the beginning
of the nineties - how easy it is to cut and paste from a Works
spreadsheet to Excel, or even whether Works can save its spreadsheet
in Excel format, so I am in a sense talking from ignorance. (I have,
however a vague memory that Works could not save in Word or Excel
format.) But it is the small user base and lack of exchangeablilty
that I don't think one can argue with.
For simpler formatted stuff one has Wordpad and Notepad or whatever
text editor your OS supplies. Although having said that, I'm finding
myself using Writer more often for things I would formerly have done
in Notepad - simple lists or notes and so on- since I have now moved
to a Mac, and the Mac is as likely to open a text document in the
terminal as in a text editor!
//J
James;
I agree that the exchangeability issue is and always has been a
concern with Works. I still use Works V4.5 and it does not save to Word
format, but it does save to the old Excel format or to a csv so it can,
if necessary exchange data with other spreadsheets. Given that, the
newer versions do output to Word and Excel format. Plus as NoOp said
earlier, the Novell versions of OOo do have filters to read Works
format. I am not sure if they write them or not.
The only things I really use it for now is the database. It is a
flat database and has the problems associated with that, but it serves
the need I have for it. Now that I am "retired" I may take a look at
learning the intricacies of relational databases, but I will always keep
my works handy as a fall back.
Regards
Keith
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