Re: WTD: More powerful spreadsheet program than Appleworks

[bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters)]

In article <40err2$o42@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Sergio Cesar Mairena <surge@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>My father owns a 128K Apple //e with a (I believe) Titan Accelerator Card.
>Although he has 128K RAM available, his copy of Appleworks only allows him
>to load 56K at a time. 

>3 newbie questions:

>1) Is there a newer version (>1985) of appleworks that allows one to work
>with larger files? 

Yes AppleWorks 5.0.1. Call Quality computers to upgrade. The costs vary
depending on the version his is upgrading from. 

>2) Is there a more powerful spreadsheet program that will allow him to
>handle larger files (> 56 K at a time)? 

The problem isn't the power of the spreadsheet, it is the amount of memory
that he has available. Again, call Quality and ask for the price of a 1 meg
memory card. That should suffice since he has gotten by with 128K for some
time.

>3) Is there any way that he can convert the Apple //e Appleworks files
>into an MS Excel (Mac) compatible format?

AppleWorks supports exporting as a DIF file. I think that your
father would be quite pleased with AW 5.0.1 and 1 meg. There are a number
of new functions available with the AW 4.x and 5.x upgrades.

Kind Regards,




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