AppleWorks 6.2

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005N525
• Item model number: M8389Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 16, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,167 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #7 in	Software > Macintosh > Business & Office > Spreadsheet
  #8 in	Software > Macintosh > Business & Office > Presentation
  #17 in	Software > Macintosh > Business & Office > Word Processing

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
AppleWorks features six applications for your core tasks: word processing, page layout, image editing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations. This version of AppleWorks opens and saves Microsoft Word and Excel files using DataViz translators, and converts your documents to PDF using Print Preview in Mac OS X. You can add text, images, sounds, movies, spreadsheets, charts, and tables to any document by dragging and dropping. For presentations, you can include titles, captions, pictures, music, and video, sort your slides using drag and drop, and prepare speaker's notes for each slide. You can also use an assistant or template to get a head start on your document, and tap an expanding library of Internet-based templates. There are also over 50 fonts in a variety of styles.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intuitive like Apple itself, October 12, 2001

By A Customer

I recently made the leap to Macs from Windows and the ominous MS Word. In short, I hate Word. MS must assume that it's customers are idiots, why else do they make Word assume things for you (such as when and how to indent, capitalize words and, number items.) I chose Apple and Appleworks 6.2 b/c it offered me complete control over my documents. I found it to be intuitive and powerful. To find out it's true power, however, you might have to play around with it a little at first, esp. if your are fresh off of Word. But all in all I am very pleased with this very unassuming product. Also, being an Apple user and more specifically an Appleworks user in a Win/Word world the data translator makes it easy to translate docs from AW to Word, even cross-platform. CHEERS APPLE!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In terms of value, best productivity suite available, July 11, 2002

By	Greg Nyquist (Eureka, California USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like some of the other reviewers, I'm rather surprised at the number of negative reviews that Appleworks has received. While it is true that Appleworks is not as powerful as Microsoft Office, it is much less expensive and clearly represents a better value. The word processer part of it (the part that most people will use) is more intuitive and easier to use than Microsoft Word. True, Word is more powerful; but it costs $350 and requires a manual to use. I have never needed to use a manual to use Appleworks. You have complete control of your documents and you don't have to summon up the help application to figure out how to do common tasks like formatting paragraphs or adding links. Those who have mastered the complexities of MS Word and who require its special features may not like Appleworks. But for the rest of us, it more than meets our needs.

Also, one thing more: I have never had any trouble with Appleworks' translators from cwk to word format. I'm not sure why so many people have reported having trouble with it. I translated an entire book from Appleworks to PC MS Word, preserving the formats and special lettering instructions without any trouble at all. In any case, this wouldn't be a problem if people would show more courtesy to non-MS users (Macs and Linux) and not insist on sending them doc formatted files. PDF and rtf are far better cross-platform alternatives.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's not to like?, May 9, 2002

By	Chris Burke (Worldwide Vagabond) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ok, I'm am sure that there are features in Word or Excel that some of you might use and the key word is might, but for the other 98% of us. Apple Works is a complete program that is full featured and easy to use. It can save and all of latest Microsoft Office file formats and that is half the battle most of the time with some of the attachments that I receive. Other than that I've been using it for about two months now and it has done everything that I have asked it to do and done it with ease. I have no problems with crashing or quiting unexpectedly under OS X. I start it and it runs and runs and runs. It's a great value even if just to open and looks at an Excel spreadsheet or Word doucument.

Chris