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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> X-Newbies mailing list >> X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >