<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Yeah. Isn't "Pages" the heir-apparent to the Claris/Appleworks throne?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Besides, Open Office is pretty much a big gun and takes you most if not all the way there.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>maybe that's part of a strategy that keeps Apple from going head up against m$ in office suite country..let open source developers do that.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Craig A. Finseth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>All signs point to AW being a lame duck.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Also, if one is considering<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>purchasing an Office set of programs, it should be noted that not many<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>other programs can open and work with AW format files.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(Though Dataviz's<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>converters handle some AW files.)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></BODY></HTML>