[G4] Appleworks

[Dennis B. Swaney]

At 12:41 PM -0400 5/1/05, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
>I read in Macworld that Appleworks is going bye bye.
>
>Sort of a problem for me because I need it for budget and for when 
>Windows users send me Word docs. That's sort of all.
>
>I also notice that Maclink seems to not work at present. ???
>
>What are you all doing about Appleworks? I could just keep on using 
>it forever except if new versions of Word don't open, I am sunk.
>
>Not interested in buying MS product right now, humph. Don't really 
>use. Would buy Quicken for the budget. (Although I like the 
>simplicity of the spreadsheet.)

Buy iWork, Apple's replacement for AppleWorks. Of course it doesn't 
have spreadsheet, database, drawing or painting modules. iWork just 
replaces the word processing and presentation modules of AppleWorks.

For database, you'll have to buy FileMaker, but AFAIK, Apple doesn't 
make a spreadsheet.
-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."