07-16-2010, 10:34 AM
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.
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.