AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual
By Jim Elferdink & David Reynolds 

Unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely
the opinion of the reader.


This page was updated August 29, 2005.


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UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers:


[22]  Second bullet from the bottom;
You say:

www.missingmanual.com: Go to the missing manual Web site and click the AppleWorks 6
button for more templates ...

I see no templates.


(53)  2nd paragraph of Importing and Exporting User Dictionaries;
...-- save it as a text file, import in into your user dictionary...

CHANGE in TO it


{58}  next to bottom paragraph;
In "Making invisible character appear" you suggest that the reader choose Edit, then
Preferences, then General.

Actually we should choose the AppleWorks symbol to get Preferences, and then General.

{17, 332}  Figures 1-7 12-2;
In AW v 6.2.3 the Tools window has been reworked so everything on the Frames and
Tools panels have been combined into one window.


[345-354]  Tables;
In AW v 6.2.3 under OS 9 (and probably 6.2.4 under OSX) Tables work a little
differently than reported in the book. The reader should use the online AppleWorks
Help to see how to use them.
 It looks like poor AW6 has been neglected as to updates. Maybe you could ask the
AppleWorks Users Group to request its members to send you errata before the next
printing. (Also if the errata is likely to remain on this web site or on your own web
site it would be nice if its URL were displayed prominantly, perhaps on the copywrite
page along with the printing number.)


(346)  Figure 12-10;
Piet Mondrian should be written: Piet Mondriaan


[367]  First Para after heading;
The book says that Appleworks 6 will open docs made by earlier versions.  Certainly
it opens most of them.  I'm upgrading from Clarisworks 3.0 (only about 5 years old),
and I found Appleworks 6 wouldn't open my old address book - it just looked at it and
went dumb.  I therefore imported it like data from an alien database (setting up a
new database with the same headings as the old, and using insert).  That went fine
EXCEPT that one item which used a pop-up menu didn't seem to import correctly.  I
guess the existence of the pop-up menu item may be the reason that the document
wouldn't open the simple way - but I haven't tested this.
Maybe worth a mention?  Actually, this business of opening each document in the new
format and putting it away in a new file structure is a bit tedious - I'll set up
some macros to try and help it along..


[398]  top;
The scripts that "don't come with fresh installations..."
The Missing Manual doesn't say where to find the "missing scripts"! they would make a
nice addition to the Missing CD!