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The word processor and the spreadsheet are powerful programs. Open Office, version 1.1.2 ( Note: now updated to 1.1.4), is a good replacement if you are happy installing the Unix X11 window and are willing to work (rarely) with Unix commands. While this does the task, this is neither intuitive nor obvious. Note: in an e-mail I was told that there is indeed a method to view pages separately, by using the Window > Page View (Shift+Command+P).

It does, however, include a database application. It is a fall-back suite for me and is overdue an update.

MELLEL APP SOFTWARE

The suite includes a weak drawing program, presentation software (Keynote and PowerPoint are better) and a spreadsheet program that does not show pages separately: pages are on one sheet, which makes working in three dimensions difficult. The word processor will handle several formats, including documents. This was Claris Works which Apple acquired. It does not create tables.Īnother free installation with Apple's consumer machines is Apple Works.

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You can also print, with OSX, to PDF files. It handles text, in English, Thai or any other OSX-supported language you can throw at it it handles graphics with click and drag ease and can handle txt files, rich text format (rtf) and documents (doc). There are better choices in my view.Īt the other end of the scale - certainly in terms of price - is TextEdit: part of the OSX installation. It does not handle Thai perfectly (see below) and some suggest it may cause problems with OSX operations. I tried it and dumped the demo version as soon as I could. Some users think that they must use this to ensure that files are 100% compatible for PC-using colleagues. Top of the list, particularly in terms of bulk and price, is Microsoft Office with Word. Details are below, but first I will reprise some other text-writing applications. It took the sharp eyes of the Macsimum News website to spot this in ' Under-appreciated Mac Gem'. Among them was a new word processor, the oddly-named Mellel, that almost slipped through the net. OSX Writing Applications: Regulars and New (Mellel)ĭecember saw several OSX downloads, including an OSX (10.3.7) update. EXtensions: OSX and Writing Applications (Mellel)

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