WriteNow has long had its enthusiastic supporters. The tidy word processor boasts speed, modest memory requirements, strict WYSIWYG display of pages, and a relatively uncomplicated interface. But a few missing features — the...

With version 3.1, Quark has upped the price of QuarkXPress from $795 to $895, but most users will find the program’s enhancements make this version worth every penny. The QuarkXPress Data file is dead, and no one is likely to mourn its...

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WordPerfect, one of the premier word processors in the MS-DOS world, brings to the Mac power features that are oriented toward the office user. Although those not in the business mainstream will find the product a bit too impersonal, WordPerfect...

iWork 2013 apps, including Pages v5.0, Keynoite v6.0 and Numbers v3.0 This is the first 64-bit only release and it should work at least up to macOS 10.15 Catalina  

iWork is a suite of office applications, comparable to Microsoft Office, Claris Works and AppleWorks 6. You get a flexible word processor which can handle a number of different requirements, also depending on the version of iWork available, you have...

Word 98 from Microsoft is not just highly competent word processing software, it is also capable of page layout. It supports .doc, .rtf, and several other file format standards that were popular at the time. Mcrosoft Word is no longer the...

Good old ClarisWorks. Better in one significant way than MS-Office: there is a 'drawing' style document which is effectively a page layout tool similar to MS-Publisher, but actually usable. Perfectly serviceable office suite including...

AppleWorks — the most popular program on the Mac — is really several applications in one. It gives you six core capabilities (and a number of combinations thereof): word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, drawing and...

BBEdit Lite is a free text editor for the Macintosh based on the award-winning BBEdit. Unlike a word processor, which is designed for preparing printed pages, a text editor focuses on providing means of producing and changing content. Thus, BBEdit...

AppleWorks 5 is an all-in-one Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Graphics Editor, and Presentations tool forked from ClarisWorks in 1998 by Apple.

Microsoft Office 2001 is a suite of productivity software for Mac OS 8 and 9 (and the Classic environment in Mac OS X). It consists of Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Entourage. Microsoft has finally seen the light. An ever-increasing feature...

Adobe PageMaker 7 is a desktop publishing program (DTP) released in 2001. Adobe PageMaker 7 requires the use of Acrobat Distiller 4 or 5 which creates PDF documents and converts PS to PDF documents; version 5.0 is available in the...

This is the original MacWrite from 1984 up until it was bought by Claris in 1987. See also: Claris MacWrite