I just wanted to share a few words (and frustrations.) Many moons ago when I was a student in university, I learned how to do basic word processing on Macs that were available to students in the computer lab. These were Mac computer that had been donated by Apple.
Over the past 20 years or so I have been involved in education and I have operated my own company. I have purchased at least 12 or 15 computers over the years. I'm currently using a G5 tower with 2 Gigs of ram.
Much of my business is set up and run using Appleworks. Business letters, faxes, etc. etc. all have company logos and letterhead and all of my customers are in AW databases. I also use the mail merge feature to print some 3,000 envelopes per month.
We have been using OS Tiger for the past year or two and yesterday I purchased a new Imac and I also upgraded my computer to Leopard. Much to my dismay AW is not working in this new OS on my computer. When I print my business letters, the artwork does not appear on the page, the database crashes way too often, and I often get the spinning beachball of death that causes me to sit at my computer and stare at the screen for many wasted minutes. I'm not a geek but I understand that it has something to do with Rosetta and I know that Apple has announced that it will no longer support AW. I guess that this is the end of the line for me as far as AW is concerned. (and yes I have repaired permissions and done other basic maintenance.)
I now have to invest a huge amount of time and energy to re-do all of my business templates in Word or some other word processing software and to set up a new data base system to keep track my customers. I consider myself to be a loyal Apple customer, and after all the money and time I have invested in Apple products, this is a huge let down for me and a gigantic disappointment. It is all so frustrating.
I guess I won't be visiting these forums any more after I convert all of my data and I wanted to thank those that have helped me in the past.
Cheers.
BTW, can anyone recommend a good database program similar to AW?
Eric Wieczorek
Victoria, Canada