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You already know that AppleWorks includes
everything you need to make managing your life simpler. You can keep in touch with
relatives, plan events and organise your hobbies and crafts. Your children can use
the program to do their homework. Your dog can make signs telling you to feed her.
However, you might not have heard how running Mac OS X
makes using AppleWorks better.(1)
Built-in benefitsSimply by running AppleWorks on Mac OS X, you’ll notice immediate benefits. Preemptive multitasking means you can work on AppleWorks projects while iTunes rips your CD collection in the background, and your Mac will still stay responsive. With the protected memory system, even if another application misbehaves, you won't have worry about losing your work or restarting your Mac — only that application is affected. Want to share your AppleWorks document with the world and have them see it just as you intended? Or for them to view it without changing the file? Thanks to the advanced Quartz graphics system in Mac OS X, simply save the print preview and you automatically create a document in PDF format. Then anyone with Adobe Acrobat Reader — or Mac OS X — can view what you made.  Infinite possibilities It’s a breeze to create just the perfect document for your special occasion. Simply start with one of the built-in assistants or templates — or a blank slate in one of the six modules. AppleWorks includes functions for word processing, spreadsheets, painting, drawing, presentations and databases. You can also work with Microsoft Word and Excel documents with the included file translators — even the 2001 editions.(2) Using a template doesn’t mean your files will look like everyone else’s. AppleWorks includes over 50 professional quality fonts from ITC, so you can customize the documents to reflect your personal style. And because not everyone thinks only in words, there’s plenty of clip art to put in your documents so people get the idea right away. Come follow the Smithee family(3) as they use AppleWorks to publish a family newsletter, do homework, plan a party, assemble a résumé and organise a garage sale. (1) Just kidding about the dog. (2) Microsoft Word and Excel compatibility provided by MacLinkPlus, a product of DataViz, Inc. (3) The Smithee family is fictional. Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental. |
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 Set the Tables AppleWorks 6 makes it so easy for you to create and modify tables that you no longer need to use a spreadsheet to organize text in rows and columns. Using the new table tool, you simply draw a frame wherever you want to add a table, and specify the number of rows and columns, and—boom, you have a table. |
It also offers improved printing and resolves issues using web based templates and clip-art on networks using proxy servers.