Text 67714, 60 rader
Skriven 2012-01-21 21:37:00 av Ed Vance (8721.windowsa)
  Kommentar till text 67689 av ALAN ZISMAN (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Microsoft Works Suite
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AZ>On 12-01-19 7:32 PM, Ed Vance -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:

AZ> EV> I'm thinking when I looked at the W3.1 box the other day when I replied
AZ> EV> to Tom that there was some kind of presentation (viewer only?) software
AZ> EV> included the old version of MS Office 4.3.

AZ>Microsoft has - for years - offered a free Powerpoint viewer program... that
AZ>might be what you're thinking of.

Alan,

Please see the list of programs the W3.1 box has, when I wrote to Tom.

AZ> EV> I used W3.1 MS Office Access Database a little.

AZ> EV> Spreadsheets are more to my liking.

AZ>Access is a pretty complex program - much too much for most home users. The
AZ>Works
AZ>database remains - to my mind - a very good database program for most home u
AZ>but many of us use spreadsheets for those sort of tasks.

IIRC I only used Access once, and that was for a task that I thought it
was better fitted for than Excel could do for me.

I now remembered playing with dBase on the computer at work back around
199x-1996.

I learned some about it just by using the Help Instructions on it to see
if I could figure out how to make it do some of the stuff it was capable
of doing.

I have a dBase III PLUS box I got at a Thrift Store for $5.00 US.

When I took it off the top shelf the Novell GroupWise v4.1 box was on
top of it and Boy! are both of them together a Heavy Load.   <GRIN>

AZ>While spreadsheets can be used for a straightforward table listing of stuff,
AZ>the Works database does a better job of both presentation of data and querie
AZ>than a spreadsheet would - at least without a lot of fiddling.

AZ>Databases were, in the early PC years (through, say, the late 1980s) one of
AZ>'Big 3' applications that everyone presumably would need (along with word
AZ>processors and spreadsheets). Since then, databases morphed into massive
AZ>corporate-level tools, and dropped off the radar of most individual (home an
AZ>small business) users.

AZ>Filemaker (affiliated with Apple) is a very good database (in both Mac and
AZ>Windows versions, with iPhone/iPad app) aiming at small business users - the
AZ>have a (Mac + iPhone only) product - Bento - aimed at home users which is
AZ>interesting, but hasn't had a huge impact as far as I can see - even among
AZ>Mac-users.

Careful Alan, JP may be reading this far down in the message, and You
know how reading about Wormy things bothers Him.   ;-)


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