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Current state of Appleworks?
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A friend of mine is thinking about buying an iBook to replace her ungracefully aging Dell laptop. She's a student, so she is understandably reluctant to shell out the $150 to buy the Mac version of MS Office. I understand that new iBooks come with Appleworks, but I haven't used it since the OS 9 days, and so I'm not sure how capable it is any more. Of particular concern is whether it can reliably convert to and from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files (Excel is particularly important here). Can any regular Appleworks users chim in?
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Originally posted by SpaceMonkey:
A friend of mine is thinking about buying an iBook to replace her ungracefully aging Dell laptop. She's a student, so she is understandably reluctant to shell out the $150 to buy the Mac version of MS Office. I understand that new iBooks come with Appleworks, but I haven't used it since the OS 9 days, and so I'm not sure how capable it is any more. Of particular concern is whether it can reliably convert to and from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files (Excel is particularly important here). Can any regular Appleworks users chim in?
Unfortunately AppleWorks hasn't been updated in a long while. You can consider it abandoned. Apple released a new office suite iWork recently. It has a word-processor (Pages) and a presentation app (Keynote). There's no spreadsheet application at the moment.
If you want an inexpensive Office suite, you can try out OpenOffice. It can pretty much open any MS Office document.
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OpenOffice or the Java equivalent NeoOffice. However, if in Excel (or others) you use any VBA code, then these won't help. Unfortunately there is no direct way to handle the programming in conversion (although AppleScript can do some).
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Open Office is huge, the install takes up over 500 mb of disk space, and it runs inside of the X11 emulator, which you also have to install. It looks more like a windows app, and seemed buggy to me when I installed it here a couple months ago. I'd say it's not for the casual home user at this point.
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i got my ibook in january and it came with appleworks - my impression was that it was a complete dog. i was getting pissed off with it after only two or three hours of use and started looking for alternatives.
now i'm using neooffice/j and it's sweet. it's not the prettiest app (it looks like an older version of ms office) ever but it runs perfectly 99% of the time (it's crashed once in two months) and is the only word processor / spreadsheet i use. and it's free. i'd suggest checking it out.
sminch
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