icWord lets you open, view, print, convert and use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and AppleWorks files. The simple WYSIWYG functionality enables you to access their native files (created in either a PC or a Mac) with their original formatting preserved: font size and style, paragraph (margins, alignment, line spacing, numbering), tabs, tables, headers and footers, page attributes, graphics, colors footnotes (added as numbered endnotes after the text body).
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It would have been great to use icWord;
unfortunately, I never got that far. I
intended to use it on a computer running
MacOS 7.5.5 (a Quadra 660, with 36 mb of
RAM), but the application quit before I
could do anything. Then I tried it, for
form's sake, on a PowerBook running 8.0.
Same problem.
What's worse: the creator actually made
his "help" file so it can open ONLY
INSIDE icWord. There may be an excellent
troubleshooting guide in there somewhere;
unfortunately, anyone with these problems
will never see it. This neat little
"feature" made getting help impossible.
Crapware.
Simple Word document = TexEdit
Mediocre Word document = AppleWorks
Nasty Word document = Pages (iWork)
In fact, Pages can Open AND Export Word documents quite nicely.
Oh, and try posting a screen shot that isn't ancient. It's called Mac OS X, you may have heard of it.
Does anyone know if there's ANYTHING out there that will open a Word doc and keep the track changes? Doesn't have to be freeware. Just need to keep the track changes somehow.
I bought it, and I was very unimpressed. A client of mine uses this for opening advertisements for turning into PDFs and placing them in a newsletter, and success with icWord has been very unpredictable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Very often, image files do not appear properly and some formatting is lost, although all of the text usually does come through in its entirety. Usually, some words get bumped on to the next page or something small like that -- not a big deal for word processing documents.
For quickly turning word processing documents into AppleWorks-readable files, icWord is very quick and easy. However, if maintaining exactly correct positioning and format is vital, it is not quite up to the job. If you just need to get text and images out of a Word doc occasionally, use NeoOffice/J and a little copy-and-paste action.
It would have been great to use icWord;
unfortunately, I never got that far. I
intended to use it on a computer running
MacOS 7.5.5 (a Quadra 660, with 36 mb of
RAM), but the application quit before I
could do anything. Then I tried it, for
form's sake, on a PowerBook running 8.0.
Same problem.
What's worse: the creator actually made
his "help" file so it can open ONLY
INSIDE icWord. There may be an excellent
troubleshooting guide in there somewhere;
unfortunately, anyone with these problems
will never see it. This neat little
"feature" made getting help impossible.
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