Editorial Review

Microsoft Excel is a popular data-analysis program for the Macintosh. Excel 2001 for Mac makes it easy to integrate the strengths of FileMaker--apopular database application for Mac--by allowing you to import data fromFileMaker Pro database files directly into Excel worksheets. Simply drag aFileMaker Pro file from the Finder to Excel, and the Import Wizard helps toselect the database records to import. Once the data is imported, you caneasily use the versatility of Excel to sort, filter, format, analyze, andchart your information. You can even refresh the data inside Excel at anytime to reflect the most recent changes made in FileMaker Pro. Excel 2001,like all Office 2001 for Macintosh applications, features an elegant newinterface in true Macintosh style. The toolbars and icons have beenredesigned and simplified. The program continues to improve on Microsoft'ssupport for key Apple technologies. Excel 2001 anticipates the intent tocreate a list and automatically offers to convert the cells into amanageable, sortable list. Also, a new Total Row command adds a row at theend of a list to calculate such information as the sum or average of thedata in a particular column without having to run a separate feature.And if you're a new spreadsheet user, you'll appreciate the new Mac-onlyCalculator, which displays formulas in Excel 2001. The calculator-styleinterface makes it easier to create simple formulas, link to other cells,and use precompiled functions to help you do your work. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer software (programs)    2. Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple    3. Spreadsheet   

Subjects:  1. Spreadsheet    2. Computer software (programs)   

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Editorial Review

AppleWorks 6.2.2 is optimized for OS X and features six applications for your core tasks: word processing, page layout, image editing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations. This version of AppleWorks opens and saves Microsoft Word and Excel files using DataViz translators, and converts your documents to PDF using Print Preview in Mac OS X. You can add text, images, sounds, movies, spreadsheets, charts, and tables to any document by dragging and dropping. For presentations, you can include titles, captions, pictures, music, and video, sort your slides using drag-and-drop, and prepare speaker's notes for each slide. You can also use an assistant or template to get a head start on your document, and tap into an expanding library of Internet-based templates. There are over 50 fonts to choose from. ... Read more

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Reviews (2)

Time, time, time
It's incompatible with my MacLinkPlus; everything must become Appleworks 5 before it can then be translated into AW6 and the same thing works in reverse. I can't cut & past text from my old fave WordPerfect for Mac. And it's the slowest somemabitch, at least in iMac X+, that I've ever had the impatience to work with. Spinning wheel: working, working, working, all right already: finish working! It's basically sound, but I can't call up the usually codes to see what is really going on, as I could with WordPerfect. Its translation to html is a nice attempt but full of hesitancies, mistranslations, & that goddamned eternal spinning wheel: processeing, processing. I really think I *could* like this word process if they fixed up the speed, efficiency, & translatability, & added the "seeing within" features I like. [I had hoped WordPerfect would make something for Mac X+, but they say no.]

Appleworks-Small package, Big Punch
Appleworks 6.2 has all the features of Microsoft Office and more.For only $80.00 it is less than half the price of Office and since it is from Apple it is designed just for your computer. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Microsoft Excel is a popular data-analysis program for the Macintosh. Excel 2001 for Mac makes it easy to integrate the strengths of FileMaker--a popular database application for Mac--by allowing you to import data from FileMaker Pro database files directly into Excel worksheets. Simply drag a FileMaker Pro file from the finder to Excel, and the import wizard helps to select the database records to import. Once the data is imported, you can easily use the versatility of Excel to sort, filter, format, analyze, and chart your information. You can even refresh the data inside Excel at any time to reflect the most recent changes made in FileMaker Pro. Excel 2001, like all Office 2001 for Macintosh applications, features an elegant new interface in true Macintosh style. The toolbars and icons have been redesigned and simplified. The program continues to improve on Microsoft's support for key Apple technologies. Excel 2001 anticipates the intent to create a list and automatically offers to convert the cells into a manageable, sortable list. Also, a new Total Row command adds a row at the end of a list to calculate such information as the sum or average of the data in a particular column without having to run a separate feature. And, if you're a new spreadsheet user, you'll appreciate the new Mac-only Calculator, which displays formulas in Excel 2001. The calculator-style interface makes it easier to create simple formulas, link to other cells, and use precompiled functions to help you do your work. ... Read more

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The MicroSoft programmers forgot their Mac 101 lessons!
This upgrade, from MS Excel 95 to MS Excel 2001, was pretty much a "forced" upgrade for me, thanks to the incompatibility between Excel 95 and my new G4 Titanium Powerbook and its operating system (OS 9.1 "as delivered", presently OS 9.2.2).
It worked beautifully!
I needed to upgrade my home computer to telecommute from work. I purchased this software to upgrade a Mac Version Excel 4.0. It worked beautifully! I can now transfer files from my computer to work with no problem, even with the work computers being PC! The features are great, all the newest shortcut buttons, and workbook options. I love it! It is absolutely wonderful!I highly recommend you upgrade to the 2001 version, no matter what format or how old your previous version of Excel ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Spreadsheet    2. Computer software (programs)    3. Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple