Few applications log as much time on our Macs as the Microsoft Office suite: the industry-standard Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, respectively; and Entourage, the popular email client, contact manager,...

OpenOffice.org is a free office suite (just like Microsoft Office)  

Microsoft Works was an all-in-one office productivity package created and distributed by Microsoft.  Features included a word processor, a spreadsheet, a flatfile database, a telecommunications client, and a drawing appllication. At...

Microsoft Works 3.0 for Mac is a comprehensive office suite of tools and utilities including: Word processor Publish documents with headers and footnotes containing graphics and page numbers. Easily view form letters with mail merge...

For years, Microsoft Works has been the only acceptable integrated package for the Mac. Version 2.0 should keep things that way. In addition to the four original modules (word processing, spreadsheet, database, and telecommunications), Microsoft has...

Bargain hunters will have no trouble bagging a good deal in today's integrated software market. Two new entries in this burgeoning field — ClarisWorks and GreatWorks... — offer impressive capabilities for less than $300. But what...

Microsoft Multiplan, the first Mac product from someone other than Apple is beginning to show age. Still a very capable basic spreadsheet with simple sorting, 63 columns by 255 rows, many built-in functions, other standard spreadsheet...

Like a world-class athlete, Microsoft seems to thrive on perfecting its game as much as on competing with its rivals. Only one year after shipping the last major release of its best-selling spreadsheet program, Excel. Microsoft has completed version...

KaleidaGraph contains the comprehensive toolset you need to get your graphing and data analysis done quickly and easily. Period. No costly "bells and whistles" that you rarely use. No complicated software that costs you valuable time and...

ClarisWorks is the best-selling integrated software package for the Mac, and with good reason: it’s inexpensive, easy to use, surprisingly powerful, and a frugal user of system resources such as RAM and hard disk space. This last quality makes...

Version 5 of Excel is here at last! Fork over your money, clean the old files off your hard drive, find a quiet hour or so for installation, and start exploring. Excel 5, like Microsoft Word, is the product of a design philosophy explained over...

NeoOffice/J is a java-based office suite based on OpenOffice.org. It provides a native Mac OS X user interface and does not require X11 like most other versions of OpenOffice.org at the time.

Spreadsheet Application

While Wingz isn’t the first spreadsheet to include graphics tools, it is the only one that lets you create 3-D charts and that gives access to the full range of Mac II colors. If you’d like to create bar charts that look like cityscapes,...

A suite of Desk Accessory pseudo applications: MockChart (Spreadsheet+Chart) MockPrinter (Prints text files) MockTerminal (Garbage scroller) MockWrite (Text editor)