[P1] open Word and Excel in Appleworks?

[Paul Bernhardt]

Whenever I hear of any program having the ability to open Word docs is 
that eventually MS changes the formats and the program has to upgrade 
to catch up... since it is rarely a priority to make the program catch 
up to MS's changes... so it flounders and eventually you get a new Word 
doc that is for office version 200twifty..whatever... I ignore it 
all... I use my windows machine at work to open documents I need to 
open there... every once in a while I give MS more money so I can open 
those files on my Mac when I notice that I'm spending too much time 
shuttling to the 'doze machine.

Paul

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 08:26  PM, Larry Kollar wrote:

>
> The latest OSX release (10.3, aka Panther), has an upgrade to
> TextEdit that's supposed to handle Word files (earlier versions
> can open RTF files). I'll be ordering it myself soon, but haven't
> tried it myself. Yet. I've heard it has trouble with complex tables.