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I had a couple more thoughts plus some email regarding my
comments about AppleWorks last week, and thought I'd share them
with you.
When AppleWorks 6 was first introduced, it was buggy, slow, and
lacked features which had been incorporated into AppleWorks 5 and
sometimes even ClarisWorks 4. However, Apple came up with an update
some months later that fixed most of the problems. This update is
called 6.1.2 for OS 8.x to 9.x users, and 6.2.2 for OS X users.
The updater is located on the
support page for AppleWorks on Apple's Web site.
Reader David Deckert points out that the updater supplies MacLink
Plus translators for the various flavors of Word up through X and XP.
My copy wasn't working right because of a clean System install that
left the translation software in the old System Folder. Fixing this
problem is described in Apple
Knowledge Base Document 88150.
That doesn't address my point about there being reciprocal
translators for AppleWorks within Word, but it does help me move one
more step away from Office - thanks, David.
Another point I forgot to make was that the built-in spell checker
doesn't know the brand names for Apple products; it doesn't recognize
iMac, iBook, and so on. It even tries to separate AppleWorks into two
words.
Several readers said they liked the responsiveness and cleaner
interface seen with the earlier AppleWorks 5 or ClarisWorks 4, which
are nearly identical. They are certainly able to do nearly the same
tasks (with a few exceptions) that the newer versions do and will run
on older machines such as Quadras
and 68K PowerBooks. When I check
out older machines for students to use at home, that's what I put on
them.
Also, I had to help students with inserting graphics into the word
processor documents part of their current lab experiment writeup. To
capture a picture of a screen segment (not the entire screen) press
control-apple-shift-4 and then drag a rectangle around the part you
want to capture using the plus-sign cursor that appears. Then, while
in AppleWorks, make sure the arrow tool is selected in the toolbar
and paste your picture in as a floating picture. This kind of object
can have text wrap around it. If the Text tool is selected when you
paste, you get an inline graphic, which moves along with the text as
you edit (better) but text cannot flow around it (worse).
Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe the next project over at Apple is
revamping AppleWorks and making it more in the style of the other
software products currently shipping from Cupertino.
Jeff Adkins is a science teacher who isn't afraid to state his preferences in computing platforms. In his classroom he has everything from a beige All-in-One to a a G4 XServe, and they all work together nicely. He calls himself the "poster child for technology integration" in the classroom. He was the 2006 Outstanding Educator of the Year for the California Computer Using Educators (CUE) organization. He also maintains a site for astronomy teachers at www.AstronomyTeacher.com.
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