Well you have a Cadilac for a program. depends on how much integration you want to achieve without a steep (or steeper) learning curve. AW6 is not Microsoft Office. Do you need file compatibility? If so then stick with Office otherwise AW should/ could do the trick. Not sure if it's still available. It is an old (dare I say archiac) program now when compared to all the newer stuff. Likely easier to learn how to use because it does not have the depth (read over abundance of capability) of say Word or Pages or Excel or Numbers. If your needs are simple then it would do the trick. However having said that I still used it regularly - now mostly report writing. I have migrated many of things I used to do in spreadsheet and database to FileMaker Pro (including repetitive word processing e.g. standard contracts, quotes where just key data or paragraphs change. Martin On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Theresa Roth wrote: > Tee, > This is an old email I saved and am just getting back to it now > that my > taxes are done. > > Would Appleworks be similar to Office for Mac which has a spreadsheet, > database, word processor, email client etc.? > > I have just upgraded Office X to Office 2008 and am getting used > top the > many changes. > > Theresa > > > On 19/12/08 9:56 PM, "Tee Cashmore" <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> I was in my own Business for years and managed with a spreadsheet, >> but afetr >> a while switched to a Database. Of course I used Appleworks which, >> used to come with most customer Macs. >> --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>