[DM-MUG] AppleWorks & iPod

[Tony LaFemina]

John Kisner wrote:

> I'm new to this list and have two questions:
>
> 1) I moved from ClarisWorks to AppleWorks but now find myself at 
> something of a dead end.  Without macros, I find AppleWorks really 
> showing its age under OSX.  I like the program at a sentimental level, 
> but find myself switching over to Excel for more and more of my 
> spreadsheet work.  (I still like AppleWorks for word processing).  My 
> question: is there any talk of AppleWorks getting a true upgrade to 
> become the "Keynote" of productivity software?  Or is AppleWorks just 
> something Apple keeps alive to make sure MicroSoft does not abandon 
> the Mac?
>
> <snip>


Hi John and welcome to the list.

I use AppleWorks too, but never upgraded from version 5. I heard from 
someone that the Classic version of AppleWorks still has macro support, 
so if you can get hold of a copy, you might feel better. I have no idea 
why Apple removed it from the OS X version, but I believe they removed 
some other stuff also. I guess they had their reasons. There was a rumor 
going around that they were working on iWorks, but I haven't heard 
anything about that in a while.

I don't know what you do with spreadsheets or why you need Excel, but 
I'm still using AppleWorks for them. I have a bunch of samples at my web 
site that do all sorts of things. A few of them use macros, but if you 
can make use of any of the others, feel free to help yourself. I also 
have some pictures there that I edited with AppleWorks. As a matter of 
fact, just about everything at the site was done with AppleWorks.

Good luck

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