[G4] Appleworks ... So Frustrated

[rich northouse]

Anne,

Just get a recent version of Excel and be done with it!!!


rich

On May 20, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Status here ... spent two hours with Applecare this morning
> and did the removal of Preferences thing plus the uninstall/
> reinstall. Still crashing. Attempted 2nd update to 6.2.9 but
> the updater cannot find the app. I'm looking right at it, though.
> There's no button to choose location. Tech says I'm looking
> at an archive install, and I really don't want to do that. Seems
> like a sledgehammer to fix a bent nail.
>
> Also repaired permissions - I thought MacJanitor did this?
>
> Will spend another hour d/l a new copy of the updater, in
> case corruption is the case, and then I'll have to decide
> whether to dump Appleworks completely and buy an old
> Classic copy of Excel.
>
> Not impressed at all. Thanks for letting me vent.
>
> Any other ideas are welcome, and thanks heaps for the
> help so far. You guys are impressive, that much I'll say.
>
> And ... that old Excel program works, and it seems I should
> have stayed with it.
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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