Letters to the Editor
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Stick a fork in it.
I gave up on AW years ago, as soon as TextEdit came along and let me use italics. AW crashed constantly, on various Macs I owned. I think it was about the time Apple renamed it AppleWorks (after Claris had renamed AW ClarisWorks). It was as if, having bagged their quarry, Apple engineers put AW up on the trophy case and forgot about it. My wife continued using AW, however, because she doesn't like change. When she got her new MacBook, and it had the latest TextEdit on it, she grudgingly tried it out. And that was the end of AppleWorks in our house.
It's unfortunate, though, that the only alternative to AW will be Pages, a bewildering program that pulls off that neat Apple Inc. trick of looking dead simple ... until you pop the hood.