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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007Removing iWork and Office
My new iMac came with preinstalled iWork and Office. I won't start them up. Can I just trash the folders? I don't have to uninstall something? > My new iMac came with preinstalled iWork and Office. I won't start them > up. Can I just trash the folders? I don't have to uninstall something? Why bother? They take up some modest amount of disk space but otherwise have no effect on your system. Both are trial versions. You can try them, see if you like them. If you really want to get rid of them just drag them to the trash and empty the trash.  SignatureBill Collins For email, change "fake" to "earthlink" In article <bbcollins-767F40.08225912122007@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, Bill <bbcollins@fake.net> wrote: > > My new iMac came with preinstalled iWork and Office. I won't start them > > up. Can I just trash the folders? I don't have to uninstall something? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > If you really want to get rid of them just drag them to the trash and > empty the trash. Thanks. I think I'll try to import my Appleworks. > In article > <bbcollins-767F40.08225912122007@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, Bill [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks. I think I'll try to import my Appleworks. I just did that on my G5. Just copied the Appleworks folder from 'Applications' and was good to go. No harm, no foul. > > In article > > <bbcollins-767F40.08225912122007@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, Bill [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I just did that on my G5. Just copied the Appleworks folder from > 'Applications' and was good to go. No harm, no foul. Thanks. That's good news. > > > In article > > > <bbcollins-767F40.08225912122007@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, Bill [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks. That's good news. You are welcome. that said, I only kept my Appleworks because I have a couple of simple databases and iWork doesn't do database. BUT, iWork is pretty darn good. I've moved all my documents and spreadsheets over to Pages and Numbers and am very happy with the move. Both are very nice and more than good enough for what I do with those types of files. You might want to give them a whirl before trashing them. > > > > In article > > > > <bbcollins-767F40.08225912122007@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, Bill [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > types of files. You might want to give them a whirl before trashing > them. Okeydokey. Will do. <snip> > that said, I only kept my Appleworks because I have a couple of simple > databases and iWork doesn't do database. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > types of files. You might want to give them a whirl before trashing > them. I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, but I'm getting used to it. OTOH I've been struggling for several years now to successfully import and print MS Word documents without having to fiddle around with header and page sizes to get the correct pagination. I've tried OpenOffice, NeoOffice, and the other usual suspects, always with something not coming out quite right. So far, Pages has got it right every time. SignaturePaul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html > I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my > existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, but > I'm getting used to it. Ouch. I'm sure they'll fix that soon. SignatureJohn Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com > I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my > existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, but > I'm getting used to it. I know this is a little painful, but it's easy to convert the comma separated export of Numbers into a tab separated file. If you feel comfortable on the command line, you can use some tools from the command line that support regular expressions to substitute tabs for the commas. What you have to be careful about is those instances of commas inside of text strings, which you would not want to replace. Of course, the export functionality creates a separate file for each sheet so if that's a problem, you have other challenges. > OTOH I've been struggling for several years now to successfully import > and print MS Word documents without having to fiddle around with header [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > So far, Pages has got it right every time. I've noticed this as well. > > I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my > > existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, but [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Of course, the export functionality creates a separate file for each > sheet so if that's a problem, you have other challenges. It's the possibility of commas within a text field which had me using tab delimited exports in the first place. I am comfortable with the command line. Any suggestions as to which tools to look into? I don't see the point of reinventing the wheel... > > OTOH I've been struggling for several years now to successfully import > > and print MS Word documents without having to fiddle around with header [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I've noticed this as well. Sounds good. SignaturePaul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html > > > I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my > > > existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, but [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > It's the possibility of commas within a text field which had me using > tab delimited exports in the first place. That's generally handled by wrapping fields that contain commas in double-quotes. Any program that claims to be able to handle comma-delimited input should recognize and support that idiom. G > > > > I've still got a few niggles about Numbers, the primary one for my > > > > existing workflow being that it doesn't offer tab delimited exports, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > double-quotes. Any program that claims to be able to handle > comma-delimited input should recognize and support that idiom. Coincidentally, I've just discovered that SQLITE doesn't ignore commas within double quoted fields. Go figure. SignaturePaul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html > > > It's the possibility of commas within a text field which had me using > > > tab delimited exports in the first place. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Coincidentally, I've just discovered that SQLITE doesn't ignore commas > within double quoted fields. Go figure. Coincidentally, SQLite doesn't claim to be able to import CSV files. Go figure. That's aside from not having been mentioned in this thread before, AFAICT. > > > > It's the possibility of commas within a text field which had me using > > > > tab delimited exports in the first place. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Coincidentally, SQLite doesn't claim to be able to import CSV files. Go > figure. Apologies, I was fooled there by the fact the help claims to support CSV as output. > That's aside from not having been mentioned in this thread before, > AFAICT. True, it was red herring :-( SignaturePaul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html > In article <121220071555507129%haiheli....@xs4all.nl>, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > I just did that on my G5. Just copied the Appleworks folder from > 'Applications' and was good to go. No harm, no foul. Ditto on a G4 OS 10.4. After asking the same on a Appleworks list. Now I am good to go also. > My new iMac came with preinstalled iWork and Office. I won't start them > up. Can I just trash the folders? I don't have to uninstall something? I had my appleworks folders on a cd for save keeping. When I got my new ibook I just got that cd put it in and copied my appleworks folder to my doc folder. No problems. In article <19c7bfa1-fbfa-4a7c-8c1b-d0c81bd76dc4@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, > > My new iMac came with preinstalled iWork and Office. I won't start them > > up. Can I just trash the folders? I don't have to uninstall something? > > I had my appleworks folders on a cd for save keeping. When I got my > new ibook I just got that cd put it in and copied my appleworks folder > to my doc folder. No problems. I did have some problems with AppleWorks after I had moved it to my new iMac with Leopard. When I clicked on Templates and Recent Items it always crashed. Then I looked at the folders and files and noticed that many of them had microsoft icons (Office) and clicking on them brought up a microsoft window asking me to start up Office. So somehow even an uninstalled Office has the typical imperial behaviour of MS. Then I deleted Office and reinstalled AppleWorks, then deleted all remaining files or templates with an MS icon. And now AppleWorks works as it should. |
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