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Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - Greg - 07-16-2010
Yuck. It has, like...no features.
Bleah.
Greg (on mom's PC)
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - Greg - 07-16-2010
Jeez...it has even less than I thought a moment ago.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - Paul F. - 07-16-2010
Yup...
Now.. understand my pain when I say; I have ONE user at work who still uses Microsoft Works 4.0 for Mac - in Classic.
I cannot get her to move her documents to something else. She knows how. She won't. And yet, I have to fix things when they don't work.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - mattkime - 07-16-2010
It works just fine - it makes you wish for office.
Perfect product!
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - silvarios - 07-16-2010
Would it be so bad if it was free and you didn't need Office compatibility? When it comes to word processing, I could make do with WordPad or TextEdit. Not sure what other people are doing that's so complex.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - Rolando - 07-16-2010
silvarios wrote:
Would it be so bad if it was free and you didn't need Office compatibility? When it comes to word processing, I could make do with WordPad or TextEdit. Not sure what other people are doing that's so complex.
Agree. I wrote papers on Word 5 on an SE/30 and Wordperfect 3x on my 6100/60. Just for giggles I downloaded this and my fingers still remember how to get along.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - silvarios - 07-16-2010
I liked Nisus Compact for many years. It was small enough to fit on a 1.4MB floppy and still had room to add documents. Decent enough features.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - kj - 07-16-2010
I've bought Works twice, and it included the full version of Word. The rest sucked, but Word was fine, and it was cheap. kj.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - JEBB - 07-16-2010
With M$Works on a PC I found it was nearly impossible to open a second spread sheet.
For a simple PC word processor WordPad would be fine except there is no spell checker
Nisus files open only with Nisus.
Appleworks seems to be near its end of life and I fear the time will soon come that Appleworks files won't be able to be opened.
Early M$ Word files can't easily be opened.
All this tells me that I need keep important files in a file format that I will be able to open well into the future. So far that format seems to be PDF. If I want them to be editable, OpenOffice/NeoOffice format may be the best choice.
Re: Boy, Microsoft Works sucks! - volcs0 - 07-16-2010
Hey, I wrote full term papers with this:
http://www.artscipub.com/history/magicwindow/
So you all stop your complainin'!