Microsoft KB Archive/117671

Mac Works 4.0: List of Features and Improvements

PSS ID Number: Q117671 Article last modified on 10-22-1998

4.0

MACINTOSH

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Microsoft Works 4.0 for the Macintosh includes the following improvements, enhancements, and new features:

General

 * Better speed and performance
 * Zoom control (available from the toolbar and/or status bar)
 * Ability to draw out and “embed” objects, including the following:
 * Paint
 * Draw
 * Spreadsheet
 * Text
 * Columns
 * Tables
 * WordArt
 * Equation Editor
 * Microsoft Word and Excel frames (installed OLE applications).
 * Ability to link OLE components, as well as spreadsheets and charts, for automatic updating
 * In-place editing of OLE components
 * Ability to create columns using the column tool on the tool palette
 * Drawing tools available at all times from the tool palette
 * Paint tools available at all times from the tool palette
 * The ability to create Slide Presentations with thumbnail previews.
 * Drag and Drop editing in all modules
 * QuickTime support
 * Toolbar/Ribbon in all modules
 * Consistent menus throughout all modules.
 * An assortment of Microsoft TrueType fonts
 * 34 ClipArt images, 1100 in the Multimedia CD Version
 * WordArt and Equation Editor OLE servers
 * WYSIWYG display
 * Battery Meter
 * Installation options for minimum (PowerBook), complete, custom, and network.
 * Custom page sizes
 * PowerTalk Support
 * Calendar with daily, weekly, and monthly views of appointments. (The Calendar includes reminders, tracks recurring appointments, and provides a to-do list with reminders and sorting.)
 * Address Book for quick access to names, addresses, and phone numbers
 * File converters and import filters for the following:
 * AppleWorks 2.0 and 3.0
 * Lotus123.WKS and Lotus 123.WK1
 * Multiplan SYLK
 * MacWrite 5.0
 * MacWrite II 1.1
 * WordPerfect 5.1
 * RTF
 * CSV
 * Text
 * EPS
 * TIFF
 * PICT
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0
 * Microsoft Works for the Macintosh 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0
 * Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh 2.2, 3.0, and 4.0
 * Microsoft Excel for Windows 2.2, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 6.0
 * Microsoft Works for Windows 3.0
 * Microsoft Word for MS-DOS 5.x
 * Microsoft Works for MS-DOS 2.0 and 3.0

Help and Task Automation
  Greeting Card & Invitation Wizard   Certificate Wizard   Newsletter Wizard   Presentation Wizard   Nearly 40 AutoStart Stationery documents, including the following:  break-even analysis budget cash flow projections</li> check register</li> class schedule form</li> fax cover sheet</li> expense report</li> home inventory</li> membership roster</li> resume</li> report outline</li> student records and grade book</li></ul>

To locate the above files, choose Find from the File menu in the Macintosh desktop. </li>  Balloon Help with click-on feature, including toolbar and tool palette </li>  Supplemental education materials: In and Out of the Classroom </li></ul>

Word Processor

 * Show/Hide All Characters
 * Ability to create embedded Tables from the tool palette
 * Ability to slide up over blank fields in mail merge
 * View zooming from 25 to 800%
 * Toolbar consistency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Works for Windows
 * PageView for on-screen viewing of headers, footers and footnotes
 * Bullets
 * Ability to condense and extend characters
 * Smart Quotes
 * Ability to copy and paste character formats from toolbar (font, size, style, color, super/subscript)
 * Text-wrap around graphics (rectangular wrap, irregular wrap, and top and bottom wrap)
 * Keyboard and mouse navigation
 * WYSIWYG footnotes
 * Endnotes
 * WYSIWYG headers and footers
 * Show multiple pages
 * Spacing flexibility (6 lines per inch option or customized)

Draw

 * Presentation graphics/slide show with master page and thumbnail preview of slides
 * Column tool to create multiple columns and link them easily
 * Gradient fill options
 * Object rotation to user-defined angles
 * Shape tool
 * Text rotation to user-defined angles
 * Object alignment
 * Adjustable on-screen grids
 * Text column formatting options (paragraph, tabs, indents, spacing, and so on)

Paint

 * Filters to sharpen, blur, contrast, and/or “posterize”
 * Support for additional PhotoShop filter plug-ins
 * Gradient fill options
 * Draw tools and shapes available in paint mode
 * 256 colors
 * Free rotation
 * Paint frames resize automatically to size of painting

Spreadsheet

 * AutoSum button automatically adds a row or column of numbers

Charts

 * Hot Links to the spreadsheet are automatically updated
 * Gradient fills for bar charts, and so on

Database

 * Ability to update all fields with one-stop dialog box
 * Multilevel sorting (so you can sort on more than one key at a time)
 * Ability to format multiple fields simultaneously, including field type, font, and style
 * Grid features, including snap to grid, alignment tools and display grid
 * Serialized fields (fields increment serial numbers automatically)
 * Ability to mark discontiguous records to print or merge with Mark For Printing feature
 * Ability to print from List view
 * Six levels of plain English queries for finding detailed information quickly

Database Reporting

 * Support for multiple fonts and colors
 * Draw layer available for adding graphics and design
 * Additional views, each with unique/flexible functions
 * ReportCreator (a one-stop dialog box for naming a report, choosing fields, sorting, grouping, filtering, and displaying statistics)

Database Forms

 * Tab-order editing for navigation
 * Easier field placement with a one-stop dialog box
 * Preview window for creating custom forms
 * Ability to select fields and draw objects without switching between Design view and Draw mode to create a form
 * Draw and paint tools available for form creation
 * Easier creation of custom labels with custom page size and form creation features
 * Ability to slide up over blank fields when printing

Communications

 * Ability to send word processing documents as text
 * Four communication protocols:
 * X modem
 * Kermit
 * Y modem
 * Z modem

Microsoft Product Line

 * File formats supported by Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh and Microsoft FoxPro for the Macintosh
 * File conversions for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works for Windows, Microsoft Works for MS-DOS
 * Works menus are consistent with other Microsoft applications for ease of use and learning
 * Microsoft applications share components including Help engines, thesaurus, spell checker, and OLE servers to conserve system resources
 * OLE allows Microsoft Word and Excel components to be linked and embedded in Works

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