[X-Newbies] Appleworks not responding

[Keith Mills]

I know that it's a long time since I promised to respond - first of all 
holidays, then hospitalisation intervened! Sorry.

To update :
a)  I've very belatedly moved onto version 10.3.9.
b)  Tony suggested that I should abandon Appleworks and invest in iWork 
and use Pages instead. And I might just do that for most things. But it 
does not seem to have a database facility which I need. So I shall have 
to continue with Appleworks for that. So (to ask a very basic question) 
J :
c)  You advise me to reinstall Appleworks. How do I do that? I don't 
seem to have an Appleworks disc. Should I have? If not, what?

With thanks
Keith



On 4 sept. 06, at 03:43, J wrote:

> Sounds like the weird icon means the app just lost its association. In 
> X, when you trash certain prefs, you must reassociate all your 
> applications otherwise you get a weird old fashioned icon.
>
> I would reinstall Appleworks is all and make sure the .app is not 
> removed from after it.
>
> On Sep 3, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> On 9/3/06 4:10 AM, "Keith Mills" <4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>> Perhaps there are some of us who just shouldn't be allowed into the
>>>> 21st Century!
>>
>>
>> Keith,
>> On the contrary, come on in. I think the problems grow when people 
>> come just
>> half way instead of all the way. Personally I would simply abandon
>> AppleWorks in favor of Pages. If you have not used it, then you are 
>> missing
>> out on a truly delightful program to use, and it can open and work 
>> with all
>> of your Appleworks files. The learning curve is small as it is so 
>> logically
>> put together and it easily saves documents as PDF, Word, HTML, RTF, 
>> etc as
>> well as Pages format.
>>
>> If your Appleworks problems persist and you need to start thinking 
>> about
>> starting again from the beginning, then I would encourage looking at 
>> Pages
>> as a realistic option. Most people who try it love it almost 
>> instantly,
>> especially if their orientation is toward graphics and design.
>>
>>
>> Tony
>> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
>> A Life Of Art
>>
>>
>>
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