I don’t have Word (detest it passionately). People (not knowing any better) have been sending me Word documents for years, as if it were an open format or something. If they’re anything like me, most of the documents that are sent to me come as Word documents, and I can’t open them. When it goes off, it pops up a window plays the Big Ben chimes, much nicer than some annoying beepy thing. While it’s counting down, the time remaining appears in the Dock, which is nice. but I also use it as a productivity tool, and you can set it as an alarm as well. Oooh, I love my weensy Tea Timer which I use to time. Ditto TeXShop (which is what I actually use to produce documents, not Appleworks or Word.) I do a lot with fink, which you won’t be interested in unless you’re a Unix person. Um, lessee, do I have anything constructive to add? Plus, as lawoot says, everyone on Earth expects you to be able to read and write Word and Excel documents, which Appleworks may or may not open in a useful/readable form. (Sad to say that about a M$ product, isn’t it?) I used the presentation component for lectures for several months, and when I finally got a copy of Powerpoint, I was like, “Praise Jebus!!!” Sooo much more powerful and stable. Seriously!? I find Appleworks horrendous to work with for anything beyond word processing (which admittedly it does quite nicely, no worse than Word, which is a nightmare). It does the same stuff, just more intuitively. I’m curious as to why you use MS Office, didn’t Appleworks come bundled with it? I like it soooo much better than Office.
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