[G4] Why not AppleWorks?

[Keith Whaley]

zhmmy harper wrote:

> I agree with Keith and Mel.  MS Word 5.1a is the best version MicroHard 
> ever offered for Mac.  Word 6 was so buggy that they never attempted to 
> debug it, then they offered gigantic ramhogs.  Actually, 98 and 2001 
> work well but they are so huge and unwieldy that I tend to use either 
> Word 5.1a or WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced.
> 
> By the way, why not use AppleWorks?  It works great with OS 9.2.1, OS 
> 9.2.2 and X.

I'd have to pay for Appleworks. I already have Word 5.1a.

keith

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> 
> In my personal experience, each Word version after 5.1A was far bigger, 
> not as easy to use, contained far more "features" than necessary and 
> that was increasingly true for each subsequent release.
> 
> I still have and use 5.1A.
> 
> keith whaley
> 
> rich northouse wrote:
> 
>> Versions of Word are like sex -- it is all good -- just some is better.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2004, at 7:43 PM, Mel Krewall wrote:
>>
>>> This is by consensus one of the worst pieces of Microsoft software 
>>> (maybe any software) for the Mac. Word 5 or 98 would be my choices.
>>> Mel
> 
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