Boy, Microsoft Works sucks!

[Greg]

Yuck. It has, like...no features.

Bleah.

Greg (on mom's PC)

[Greg]

Jeez...it has even less than I thought a moment ago.

[Paul F.]

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.

[mattkime]

It works just fine - it makes you wish for office.

Perfect product!

[silvarios]

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.

[Rolando]

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.

[silvarios]

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.

[kj]

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.

[JEBB]

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.

[volcs0]

Hey, I wrote full term papers with this:


http://www.artscipub.com/history/magicwindow/

So you all stop your complainin'!