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Sep 22, 2021 Download AppleWorks 6 for Windows. An updater is available immediately as a free download to all Mac users currently running AppleWorks 6.0.4. The updater includes a special preview version of AppleWorks 6.1 for Mac OS X. AppleWorks 6 is not available as a free download; you need to purchase it. The Appleworks 6 Suite for Windows includes 6 well known Applications: Word Processing; Spreadsheet; DataBase; Drawing; Painting; Presentations; Top DL: Full install set of AppleWorks 6 for Windows (US English) 2nd DL: Updates to version 6.2.2 (US English) 3rd DL: QuickTime 4.1.2 for Windows (as shipped with AppleWorks 6). If this (or a newer) version of QT is not installed. The latest version of the free LibreOffice (Mountain Lion or above required) has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images. Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more.
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AppleWorks 6 is the long-awaited revision of the integrated suite formerly known as ClarisWorks. The new name still elicits happy memories from my Apple II computing days, when AppleWorks was the only productivity software one needed. Although early versions of BeagleWorks and Symantec’s GreatWorks put ClarisWorks to shame, Claris persevered until version 4 became the clear champion of the integrated productivity suites. Soon after, it was the only one left standing. ClarisWorks was always popular in education, and with version 5 Claris introduced a Word 5–like button bar to help the product gain acceptance with small businesses. (“It’s all the office you need.”) Sadly, this was one of only a few minor changes between versions 4 and 5. It was not the upgrade most hoped for.
Apple soon resorbed Claris, jettisoning all its products except FileMaker Pro, HomePage, and ClarisWorks. FileMaker and HomePage were spun off as FileMaker, Inc., and as Apple rightly recognized that ClarisWorks was an essential product for the consumer and education markets that its new i-products were targeting, it took ClarisWorks for itself and renamed it AppleWorks.
Most people took this as a good sign. Although Apple ignored great products such as Claris Emailer and HyperCard, it seemed to recognize the importance of AppleWorks and understand its appeal. Not only is it now bundled with new iMacs and iBooks, but Apple also holds it up to developers as a sign that they are eating their own dog food. AppleWorks 6 is the first major Mac application to be Carbonized for Mac OS X. It’s also the most significant update to the product since ClarisWorks 4, featuring tables (at last), a presentation module, and a new interface. All of this sounds great, but the truth of the matter is that AppleWorks 6 is a mixed bag. The improvements are welcome and nicely done, but the usability of the program has regressed to the point where I feel that version 6 is actually a downgrade. That’s the short version of the review; read on to find out what Apple did right, what it did wrong, and whether you should buy.The New Look
The first thing you’ll notice about AppleWorks 6 is its new look. As with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5, AppleWorks 6 has a new look that kinda, sorta looks like Mac OS X’s Aqua. And, like IE 5, the new look does nothing to improve usability and has some significant drawbacks, not least of which is that the new parts look nothing like a standard Macintosh application. This is particularly unfortunate for AppleWorks, as it comes from Apple. If Apple won’t follow its own guidelines, it sets a poor example for other developers. Who has to put up with the trendy non-standard interfaces? We do, of course.The Button Bar
Thankfully, with AppleWorks 6, the interface changes are mostly relegated to the floating palettes and the button bar, which now features Office 98–style rollover buttons that don’t look like buttons. The button bar has prettier icons than before, but it ends up being less useful. It also no longer supports multiple sets of buttons, which is bound to disappoint some users, although I’m not among them.
In AppleWorks 5, the button bar could display pop-up menus that showed the font, size, and style of the current text. You could also adjust these properties from the pop-up menus.
With AppleWorks 6, there’s no easy way to inspect the attributes of the current text. You can add Font, Size, and Style buttons to the button bar to help apply these attributes, but using them is clumsy. If you click and hold the mouse on the button (instead of clicking and releasing—the Windows way), there is a long delay before the menu pops up. And if you don’t keep the cursor completely still during this delay, AppleWorks thinks you want to edit the button bar and starts dragging a translucent graphic of the button-menu you’re trying to press.
The second think you’ll notice about the button bar is that it’s huge. The screen shot above is the version with small buttons. Even so, it’s displaying one fewer button than the smaller screenshot of the AppleWorks 5 button bar, and that’s not counting the latter’s five pop-up menus and help text area.Tools and Accents
This trend continues throughout AppleWorks 6. While previous versions of AppleWorks made excellent use of screen real estate, Apple says that AppleWorks 6 gives you, and I quote, “more flexibility in managing the ‘real estate’ in the document window.” (from the AppleWorks 6 online help). Translation: AppleWorks 6 uses a lot more pixels but lets you control exactly which pixels are wasted by moving floating windows around the screen.
The visual bloat comes at you from two directions. First, all the floating windows are much larger than before, even though most of them don’t display any additional information. Second, AppleWorks 6 forces you to rely on floating windows where you didn’t have to in previous versions. For example, in AppleWorks 5 each document had a tools palette at the left edge of its window. The top four tools were for selecting and moving objects and creating frames, and the other tools were context sensitive, i.e. drawing tools or painting tools, depending on which type of frame you were editing. Below those tools were eight pop-up menus that were used for setting fill colors and patterns, as well as line styles. You could tear off frequently used pop-up menus to form palettes. In this way, the tools took up exactly as much space as you wanted, and you could display as many palettes (torn-off menus) at a time as you wanted. It was easy to hide the tools section at the left edge of the window and to show it again when you were ready to do some drawing.
With AppleWorks 6, all of these options are gone, and the tools section has become a floating palette. One of its tabs contains the tools for creating frames, and the other (as shown below) contains the drawing and painting tools. Note that since I’m not in a painting or table frame, the bottom ten tools are unavailable.
The new tools palette takes up a lot more space than the old tools bar, but what’s even worse is that it always gets in the way. The old tools bar was part of the window. When you showed it the window’s contents slid over the right, and when you hid it they slid back over to the left. The tools palette, on the other hand, is a floating window. When you show it, it appears on the left edge of your screen, covering the leftmost inch of your document. You move the window an inch to the right so that you can see both at once. (If you have the tools bar docked, you can skip this step.) When you then hide the tools palette, it disappears, leaving an inch of wasted space along the left edge of your monitor; so, you move or resize your document window to take advantage of this space.
Guess what happens when you want to show the tools palette again?
The painting, fill, line, and gradient options have been moved from pop-up menus in the document window to a separate Accents palette. Unlike the tools palette, the Accents palette cannot be docked. Each set of options is on its own tab, which means that you can’t see more than one at once. And since you have to switch tabs to set different options, it’s no more efficient than clicking on the pop-up menus in AppleWorks 5—except that now you have this huge palette filling up your screen. Also annoying is AppleWorks’ tendency to automatically show the Accents palette when you create certain kinds of documents.
The way accents work has also changed. In AppleWorks 5, the pop-up menus and palettes would always display the attributes of the currently selected object. If no object was selected, they displayed the default attributes that would be used for the next object you created. In AppleWorks 6, the Accents palette always displays the default attributes. I don’t see any benefit to this approach, and it’s potentially confusing.Starting Points and Auto-Save
Apple did do a few smart things when they redesigned the interface. Starting Points and Auto-Save are two new features that work quite well. AppleWorks displays the optional Starting Points window when you start the program and whenever there are no open documents. It provides easy access to new documents, PrintShop-inspired assistants, Recent Items, and Templates. The only problems I found with Starting Points are that it feels sluggish (even on a Sawtooth G4) and that the window often gets mispositioned.
Auto-Save is a new feature that, when activated, causes AppleWorks to periodically save all open documents. It never overwrites your files, instead auto-saving into a special folder for emergency recoveries. If your Mac crashes with an open document, the next time you start up, AppleWorks will ask whether you want to recover the from the auto-saved version.
This turned out to be very useful feature. While writing this review, I tried several times to take AppleWorks’ bundled equation editor (MathType) for a spin. My Mac crashed hard every single time, but I never lost any data.Modules and Frames
AppleWorks is comprised of six core modules: word processing, spreadsheet, database, drawing, painting, and presentation. You can, of course, create documents of any of these types, and AppleWorks is quite a lean program considering that it does all these things. But its real strength lies in integration. Any of the six document types can contain “frames” belonging to the other modules. For instance, a word processing document can have an embedded spreadsheet frame, and a database can have embedded painting frames. A word processing document can contain text frames, which at first seems unusual, but ends up being an incredibly easy way to create documents with multiple (possibly linked) text flows. Any kind of document can be a frame, except databases and presentations (which don’t really make sense as frames). And, in addition, any kind of document can contain table frames (although there is no separate table document type).
Nice features are present in all of the main document editors. Slide Show, a carry over from before there was a presentation module, lets you do presentations with any kind of document. Views let you open the same document in multiple windows, each of which could be set a to a different zoom level. Links lets you create clickable links to other documents, or other parts of the same document. There’s also a scripts menu that you can customize with your own AppleScripts. A few useful scripts are bundled, including one for mounting iDisks.Word Processor
The word processor is the most important AppleWorks module, and it’s also the best. It’s powerful enough for almost anyone’s needs, with support for the usual formatting features, as well as paragraph and character styles with inheritance, outlines, tables, sections, and footnotes. Of course, there’s also an integrated spelling checker and thesaurus. In fact, it’s probably more likely that you’ll find the AppleWorks word processor inadequate because it can’t read Microsoft Word files than because it lacks the word processing features you need.
What is the AppleWorks word processor missing? Mostly long-document tools. It has no table of contents or indexing features and no support for cross references. Automatic numbering is only available in the outliner—you can’t create custom numbering for headings, figures, or tables. You can create inline and floating graphics, but there’s no way to link floating graphics to particular paragraphs. Invisible text is not supported. There’s no way to keep certain paragraphs on the same side of a page break, or to control widows and orphans. The equation editor is a separate application, making AppleWorks unsuitable for serious scientific work. Finally, the Find and Replace feature only supports text; you can’t search for styles, graphics, or footnotes.
The missing feature that stands out most, however, is that the word processor no longer contains Font, Size, and Style menus. These commonly accessed commands are now hidden behind sub-menus in the Text menu, while the less frequently used Outline and Table commands each get their own menu. This is perhaps the most bizarre contradiction in AppleWorks’ design. Nearly everywhere else the product seems like it was designed for 21-inch monitors, yet the most important part of the interface, the menu bar, actually takes up less space than before.
The stand-out feature is tables. Before AppleWorks 6, the only way to create tables was to embed a spreadsheet frame in your word processing document. Now, AppleWorks has a real table editor, and it’s one of the best I’ve seen. The only major flaw is that tables cannot span pages.
You create a table by specifying its dimensions in a dialog box or by converting the selected text. Once you have a table, you can subdivide and merge cells using the menu commands, or add new cells by drawing the divider lines, much like in Word 98. The normal AppleWorks tools for colors and lines let you change the look of your table by changing divider widths and adding cell shading. Support for table style sheets can save you a lot of time with this, but the feature turns out to be disappointing. Table style sheets let you quickly apply a preset formatting to your table, but the style and the table are not linked; changing a table style does not affect tables already created with that style.
Finally, since table are full-fledged frames, you can position them as draw objects in your word processing document, and include them in documents from the other modules. Beware, though: in a painting document, tables become uneditable bitmaps.
AppleWorks makes creating documents with columns a breeze. Since it supports sections, each part of your document can have a different number of columns and different page numbering. This, combined with the strong support for text frames containing independent text flows, makes it an easy and inexpensive alternative to PageMaker for creating simple newsletters.
As I mentioned above, AppleWorks has some powerful style sheet features, including inheritance and compound styles. Unfortunately, AppleWorks 6 takes a styles feature that was easy to use (but not perfect) and makes it awkward to the point where it discourages the use of styles. In AppleWorks 5, styles were applied and edited from the Styles palette, shown below. To edit a style, you selected its name in the left pane, and then used the normal formatting interface to adjust the style’s properties, shown at the right. When not editing styles, the palette was half the width shown below, consisting simply of a list of styles that you could apply by single-clicking with the mouse.
AppleWorks 6 changes the Styles palette to the one shown below. It does not get any shorter than in the screenshot, and there’s no way to hide the preview. At its narrowest, it is about twice as wide as the AppleWorks 5 palette, and because of the outline structure you’ll need to make it even wider to see the style properties that you’re editing. Overall, the new palette is clumsier to use. When editing styles, I spend a lot of time collapsing and expanding the disclosure triangles. When applying styles, I’m bothered by the odd list selection behavior; in AppleWorks 5 you could click anywhere in the style list to select a style, but in AppleWorks 6 you must click directly on a word, and not in the white space next to one.
Applying styles didn’t work quite the way I expected. At first, it seems that double-clicking on a style name is the same as clicking the Apply button. But in fact, these behave differently. There’s still no way to apply styles from the menu bar, or even to assign shortcut keys to them.
Finally, there are two deficiencies to the design of AppleWorks’ styles. First, there’s no way to make the style of the next paragraph part of a style: pressing Return with the insertion point on a heading paragraph creates another heading instead of switching to Body style. Second, styles are not smart about combining vertical space. Say you specify that headings should be preceded by 24 points of white space and body paragraphs should be followed by 12 points of white space. Then if you have a body paragraph followed by a heading, there will actually be 36 points of space in between, instead of the 24 that you probably wanted.Spreadsheet
There’s not much to say about the AppleWorks spreadsheet. It works, it hasn’t changed much from previous versions, and it’s adequate only for basic tasks. It still uses a different syntax for cell formulas than Microsoft Excel, using two periods instead of a colon to specify ranges of cells. It has no support for sheets. Charts are still very limited, and more difficult to create than in Excel. If you’re not happy with the AppleWorks spreadsheet, I recommend Mariner from Mariner Software. It’s more powerful than AppleWorks and more efficient to use. If that’s still not enough, there’s always Excel.Database
The database module has also changed little since previous versions. It works very much like a “Lite” version of FileMaker Pro and lacks advanced features such as FileMaker’s script editor. Oddly, you can no longer hide the record browsing controls at the left edge of the window. The biggest problem with the database is still that there is still an obscenely low limit on the amount of text you can have in each field. Painting
The painting module works fine, but does nothing to distinguish itself. I suppose the best part about it is that you can embed painting frames inside other AppleWorks documents. Aside from this, you’re probably better off with a shareware painting program like GraphicConverter or a low-end commercial one such as Color It!.Drawing
Like the painting module, the drawing mod

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