I have been using Appleworks since 1985 and followed it through numerous revisions. Appleworks is very intuitive and easy to use (I find using Word to be a wrestling match between me and the program - it keeps wanting to tell me what I'm doing instead of just doing what I ask it to do). The wordprocessor in Appleworks doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Word has but it can do everything that 99.99% of users need to get done.
As for file translation between Word and Appleworks - a quick note is in order. If you are running Appleworks under Mac Classic OS (Mac OS8 or Mac OS9) the file translation to/from Word is between 'weak' and 'passable'(50 - 70% accurate), but under OSX the file translation has made huge leaps forward. It is still not perfect. But the accuracy has jumped up into the 95-98% range.
Under Mac OS8/9, the usability in a Word/Excel world is very limited. But under Mac OSX, it's usability stands up to the needs of 99.99% of what users need.
If you are not concerned with translating documents to/from Word/Excel, then Appleworks is THE STANDARD that all others try to meet. Appleworks is far more cost effective than Word/Excel and does far more. Besides the word processor and spreadsheet Appleworks also has a Drawing module, a Painting module, and a full featured Database module. And data can be copied and pasted back and forth between ANY of the modules. This means that you can go into the Painting module and paint a picture, then copy it, and paste it into the letter you are writing to grandma in the word processor, plus much more.
For the Macintosh, Appleworks is your 'do almost everything' program for everyday data processing. (it doesn't do video or sound, or specialized tasks like that) If you want to write letters, make bulletins, or 'wanted posters', small signs, spreadsheets, drawings, paintings, or a database of your movie collection, Appleworks is for you.Get more detail about AppleWorks 6.2.
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