MacWorld 8509 September 1985

MACWORL September 1985 $3.95 The Maciiesh Magazine Canada $4.95 OverVUE asks: What can you do in two ticks of a clock? You could start your car. Dunk a donut. Introducing OverVUE 2.0. Much more than a database. As you know, two seconds isn’t very long. Usually, you can’t accomplish much in such a short amount of time. But, with OverVUE, two seconds is all the time you'll need to sort, total, chart, select, calculate, zoom, and much, much more. Of course, speed alone doesn’t mean much unless a program has the power to get your job done. And OverVUE can definitely get the job done, OverVUE 2.0 is loaded with new features like Relational Joins, Macros that let you compress an entire sequence of commands into a single pull-down menu item, spreadsheet-like math capabilities, Charts that can be displayed with just a few mouse clicks, Clairvoyance for painless data entry and Import/Export for exchanging information with other database and spreadhseet programs. PVH ProVUE™ Development Corporation 222 22nd Street e Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card Catch a ray. Roll the dice. You'd be amazed. s There's no question, OverVUE is one of the most powerful packages available for any microcomputer. But don’t be overwhelmed, because OverVUE is also one of the easiest databases to set up, modify and use. And if you don't believe us, just ask INFOWORLD. They rated OverVUE “excellent” for ease of use (April 1, 1985). OverVUE 2.0, It’s incredibly fast. It's powerful. It's easy to use, You won't find a more complete database program anywhere! So what are you waiting for? It will only take a few seconds to hop in your car, drive to the nearest software dealer and pick up your very own copy of OverVUE. “First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. You need a Macbottom™ hard disk drive to enhance the power and speed of your Macintosh. 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Mperasion Come see Macbottom during the Boston GO RenidrmmsRoee) Terme Dh oaeie MACWORLD Expo at booths 326 and 328, 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc Circle 223 on reader service card MACWORLD September 1985 72 78 86 92 Getting Started What Is Integration? Danny Goodman Catch the cresting wave of multifunctional software for the Macintosh; examine the framework of integrated programs and consider the alternatives to packaged integrated products. Review All That Jazz Gordon McComb This quintet of applications finally hits the scene, with dynamic integration and convenient design. But sometimes: its sound is too big for the Mac's memory. The Excel Numbers Game Lon Poole Marshal figures and facts with this powerhouse that combines a spreadsheet and a database manager with graphics good enough for presentation. The Multimillion-Cell Promise Bill Grout Icons in Crunch make this three-in- one spreadsheet easy to use, but the 512K Mac can’t push it to the limit. 98 104 105 The Macintosh"Magazine Hands On The Spreadsheet Choice Adrian Mello Take your seat for the great matchup— Excel versus Jazz. While you're weighing the alternatives how each measures up and how a third contender fares against the others. Community The Jazz Singer Pushing to Excel Edited by J. E. Arcellana and David Ushijima Mitch Kapor of Lotus and Bill Gates of Microsoft talk about their new products for the Macintosh ina matched set of Macworld imerviews. 17 27 39 47 Columns Jazz Is Hot, So Is Excel David Burnell Note Pad Larry Tesler An Apple veteran lays to rest the Macintosh’s honorable predecessor. Letters Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick Joining the Star Wars crew, getting a toehold in the typesetting business, and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions about worn mice, memory upgrades, typeface techniques, and other Mac matters. 109 145 163, 171 175 176 Departments Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson Short but straight-shooting ssessments of SongPainter, Airborne!, ClickOn Worksheet, Personal Accountant, and the ThinkJet printer. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid Surviving a disk crash, selecting in Word, and more Macintosh discoveries. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Macworld Directory Indexes Products Advertisers Photo/illustration credits John Hersey, 41, 86; Hewlett- Packard Co., 132; Ed Kashi, 17, 41, 42, 104-105; George Steinmetz, 9, 47; Fred Stimson, cover, 72-73, 99; Rudy VanderLans, 39, 43; Mick Wiggins, 79, 93, 109, 111, 123. Macworld Seas) Watch your music take shape with SongPainter, one of five products reviewed in Macware Reviews starting on page 109. 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You can argue that there are lots of Apple IIs in school that don’t use VistCale and that the PC would have been successful without 7-2-3, but there is little doubt that great software and great computers go together. Lotus's Jazz and Microsoft's Excel are both capable of doing for the Macintosh what 7- VisiCalc, and WordStar did for their respective buddies. Never before have two super programs appeared almost si- multaneously for the same com- puter. Jazz redefines the notion of an easy-to-use integrated. program, while Exce/ redefines both the power and the presentation capability of spreadsheets. Andas if Jazz and Excel weren't enough, we are wit- nessing a deluge of other solid business software such as Crunch, OverVUE, Microsoft Chart, and Habadex. Macin- tosh users, some of them wait- ing a long time for software that shows off the real elegance and power of this machine, are entering a new era of embar- rassing riches. Suddenly, software for the Macintosh is not only easier to use but more powerful and more versatile than software for the IBM PC, In Macworld’s August issue 1 said that the Macintosh would be successful despite Apple’s bungled attempts to market it. Unless the rules of the personal computer game have changed, software is the reason my pre- diction of success will be proven correct. If l were in charge of Apple’s advertising budget, I would be tempted to give away at least the television portion to Lotus and Microsoft. jazz advertising has given the Macintosh a fresh, usable look and greatly boosted the computer's visi- bility when Apple needed ex- posure most. Apple seems to have lost its PR touch. For several months we heard nothing but bad news. The company seems to know how to hype itself when there’s something great to shout about, but it’s far less ex- perienced in handling bad news. The biggest nightmare has been the Steve Jobs affair, When Don Estridge was re- moved as head honcho of IBM's Personal Computer divi- sion last March, the company announced that he got a big promotion to IBM headquar- ters in Armonk, New York, and that the employees gave him standing ovations when he made farewell rounds of the PC division buildings. When Jobs left it seemed more like an assassination. The barrage of bad press shatters any hopes of selling Macs in the Fortune 500 mar- ket. Corporate buyers aren't likely to turn their backs on the IBM standard as long as the Ap- (continues on page 12) Macworld 9 Now the can do some Apple's Macintosh, "the computer. foe the rest sae is probably the ae adv restofus serious writing. Reader-friendly form letters. With Microsoft® Word, you also get a sophisticated “conditional” text merging feature that lets you make customized form letters and documents. 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The user interface was the most publicized characteristic of the Lisa. It introduced a host of ideas that have been widely emulated, ranging from how columns are widened ina spreadsheet to how people are notified of mistakes and prob- lems. When the Lisa develop- ment team designed the user e, we borrowed good from wherever we could find them. For example, the Lisa borrowed pop-up menus and overlapping windows from Smalltalk, status lines from VisiCalc, and automatic re- moval of extra spaces after n from Douglas research at SRI But the Lisa user interface ‘was not a copy of any that pre- ceded it; it was distinctive. It was the first to feature the now- familiar menu bar, the one- button mouse, the Clipboard, and the Trash can. Although the Xerox Star had icons, the L was the first product to let you drag them with the mouse, open them by double-clicking, and watch them zoom into overlapping windows. ‘To minimize the time it would take people to learn to use the Lisa, Apple technical writers, programmers, and marketers struggled for two years to find suitable termi- nology to appear in menus, di- alogs, alerts, and manuals. Our foreign-language translators spent months more choosing the corresponding terms in French, Italian, German, Span- ish, and other languages. It may come as a surprise that terms like Revert, Plain Text, Align Left, Clipboard, and Panel were difficult to coin and even more difficult to agree upon. When we studied Visi- Calc, we discovered that people had trouble interpreting the term General Format, which means that a number: typed into a spreadsheet cell is right justified, while text is left justified. After extensive brain- storming and testing of LisaCalc, we chose Words left, numbers right, which was self- explanatory if a bit verbose. Much has been made of the high cost and five-year develop- ment time of the Lisa. True, the development was expensive, but it did not take five years, The first Lisa was shipped in May 1983. Five years earlier, in 1978, Apple had launched a project code-named “Lisa,” but that project's goal was quite dif- ferent from what the Lisa even- tually became. In early 1980, after Apple's senior staff visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Cen- ter (PARC) to see a demonstra- tion of Smalltalk, the goal was completely redefined. Only the code name, some of the hard- ware components, and a few of the staff members stayed the same. I was the PARC employee who gave Apple the Smalltalk demonstration. Impressed by the perspicacity of the visiting Apple staff members, I resolved to join their company, which I did in July 1980. Rich Page had just built the first Lisa prototype incorporating a sample 68000 Macworld 17 P G0 MOST REVOLUTIONARY ¢” ATTACHMENT TO THE MACINTOSH” SINCE T The Bernoulli Box”, the cartridge disk subsystem that revolu- tionized mass storage for the IBM PC, XT, AT, most compatibles, and the TI Professional, now proudly adds Apple's Macintosh to the list. The Bernoulli Box and its 5-megabyte removable cartridges together deliver unparalleled data base dynamics, And that, more and more, is what your business needs today. Not centralized, monolithic banks of information, but data bases defined by job function and software application, Data bases that give people the versatility to work more productively. But there is more, More performance and reliability, Transfer rates and access times faster than most Winchesters. No head crashes ever, And cost per megabyte that Winchesters cannot touch, The Bernoulli Box's cartridge capacity, portability and absolute interchangeability give your business more options You ci a E MOUSE. easily build primary data bases, You can package individualized data bases, software and all—for payroll, accounting, marketing, computer graphics—in convenient, dedicated cartridges. And you can pack all of the data into a briefcase, an interoffice envelope, or even a file drawer. The Bernoulli Box. When placed beside Apple's “computer for the rest of us,’ the best box you can buy. For the dealer nearest you, call 1-800-556-1234, ext. 215, In California, call 1-800-441-2345 ext. 215, [-MEGA 1821 aay eaarl Roy, Utah 84067 BOX” Circle 171 on reader service card ickArt Eff Four New Tools for Macpaint € file Edit Goodies Font Fantsize style ClickArt Effects Picks Up Where MacPaint Left Off Now you can produce the special effects you've always wanted in MacPaint. 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(lickArt and ClickOn are trademarks of Maker Company: Macintosh is «trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. MacPaint, MaeWite and MacDraw are trademarks of Apple Curnputer, nc Really Special Effects ‘These tools are great simply for their stated purpose. But the included tips manual will give you some ideas for even wilder effects. You can use the tools to create unusual patterns, to generate a gradual gradation, to create shadows and monument effects, and much more. It's like discovering MacPaint all over again, € File Edit Goodies Font tontsice style Check Out All Our Macintosh Products Stop by your dealer to see the full line of Macintosh software from ‘T/Maker Graphics—Clickart Effects, ClickArt image portfolios and fonts, and the ClickOn Worksheet, a spreadsheev/grapher that operates as a desk accessory. Or call or write to us to receive a free catalog. Price: $49.95 ClickArt ‘WMaker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA94043 415/962-0195 Circle 29 on reader service card Circle 177 on reader service card The most powerful mail list pron ee developed! BULK MAILER. fast and totally complete. “Duplication Elimination “Full Zip or Alpha sort *Large Record Capacity Full use of the Mac interface “Plus much, much more. BULK MAILER MACINTOSH VERSION ~ $125. Available at your dealer or directly tom Satori Software 5507 Woodlawn N. Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 633-1469 Visa/MasterCard accepted Macintosh ia taderark of Apple Camputer, ne 20. September 1985 Note Pad microprocessor from Motorola. Apple’s small but energetic Lisa development team was debat- ing the relative merits of one-, two-, and three-button mice, No software had been designed except a tiny prototype of LisaWrite written on an Apple Il. Some thought had been given to the user interface, but there was no menu bar, no icons, and only one scroll bar on the left side of each window. In the summer of 1980, a group headed by Bill Atkinson and myself defined the ground rules of the user interface. To- day those rules are familiar to anyone who uses a Macintosh or a Lisa. Bill prototyped pull- down menus and a one-button mouse, along with alternatives to this scheme. I had a number of people use the prototypes to compare the relative merits of those designs. That autumn Bruce Daniels hired most of the Software Group. Although the majority had never seen a mouse before, they plunged into the design of the operating system, the Win- dow Manager, QuickDraw, LisaCalc, LisaDraw, LisaGraph, LisaList, and the Desktop Manager (Finder). As manager of the 20-person Applications Software Group, I was pressured constantly for schedules and priorities. My as- BULK MAILER is specially designed for managing large mail lists. It is easy-to-use, ‘This special Macintosh version offers: “Coding & Date Expiration ue “Multiple Label Formats ( 1 The Lisa’s Influence The Lisa affected the design of many per- sonal computers. Listed bere are Lisa in- novations that were incorporated into the Macintosh. sociate, Peggie Stanford, tried a number of project scheduling SSS EEE EES Hardware — Mouse design — Imagewriter printer User Interface — Menu bar, pull-down menus, keyboard- activated menu commands — Printing dialog boxes — Appearance, structure, and operation of windows and scroll bars — Ability to move windows and icons by dragging them with the mouse — Windows that zoom to open and close — Dialog and alert boxes with buttons and check boxes for selecting choices Individual Software Packages — QuickDraw graphics are identical on the Lisa and the Macintosh. — LisaProject was converted for Macin- tosh to become MacProject. — LisaDraw was converted for Macintosh to become MacDraw. — LisaTerminal, LisaWrite, LisaCalc, LisaGrapb, and LisaList influenced the design of Macintosh applications. — The Lisa Desktop Manager influenced the design of the Macintosh Finder. — The Lisa printing software heavily influ- enced the Macintosh printer-driver equivalent. — Lisa Pascal is still the principal language used to develop software for the Macintosh, ClickArt Fonts and Images for the Macintosh Make your memos, flyers, newsletters or reports come alive with ClickArt images and fonts, Instead of having to create graphics from scratch, ClickArt puts hundreds of professionally drawn images at your fingertips. You can use the drawings in the ClickArt series as is, or as a starting point for your own creativity. ‘There are three ClickArt packages to choose from: Personal Graphics is a disk-full of contemporary images from small dingbats to full-screen portraits. Images include Einstein, Michelangelo's David, animals, cartoons, cars, wine botle, city skyline, They're great for adding a personal touch ClickArt Letters contains 24 high quality typefaces in large point sizes (24, 36, 48 and 72 point) that make your headlines and overhead transparencies come alive. Fifteen of the typefices are installable fonts. Typefaces up to two inches high are to invitations, stationery or announcements. included in MacPaint files. Oxford |guston Vegas Sydney NewHaven Plymouth Fargo Basel Calgary Bo alias (I | ab dé 5 We aocde GDEF ClickArt Publications is a collection of images specifically designed for creating newsletters, flyers and invitations. It includes two- and three-column layout guides with illustrated headlines (like ‘Letters to the Editor,” “On Vacation,” “Party.” “Thanks” and “Bon Voyage") sized to fit the layouts. I also contains cartoons, ‘maps of the USA and Europe, illustrated alphabets, and much more. Macintosh Software from T/Maker Graphics Stop by your dealer and check out all our Macintosh products— including our two newest: ClickArt Effects, which adds rotate, slant, distort and perspective to MacPaint, and the ClickOn Worksheet, a spreadsheel/grapher that operates as a desk accessory. Or call or write to us to receive a free catalog showing all the images and describing each package. Price: $49.95 each e ™ Letters to LC the Editor ‘WMaker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA 94043 415/962-0195 ClickArt and ClickOn are trademarks of Taker Company, Macintosh i a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. MacPaint, Mactérite and MacDraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 29 on reader service card The Macintosh Office works. Our new XL/Serve™ software makes your Macintosh Office work today, by letting you share a Macintosh XL’s disk and printer with the rest of your AppleTalk network. Available now, direct from us or from your dealer. Infosphere 4730 SW Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97201 (503) 226-3620 XxUServe is trademark of lnfosphere.Applelk and MaciatosI are trademarks of Apple Computes, Ine Circle 249 on reader service card A COMPLETE DATA-BASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR ONLY: DATAFAST DATAFAST is super-easy to use. We gua- rantee that you will be able to start using this program In 3 minutes (even without reading the manual)! Select options from menus and answer simple questions to do things that require a programing language in other data-base programs! * Multipurpose: You can use DATAFAST to store and process data about everything that needs organizing: addresses, mailing lists, clients, patients, customers, inventories, references, bibliographies, collector's items, recipes, you name it... Various serious business applications Easy entering, updating, sorting, and reorganizing of your data Can access data from other programs and computers You can print labels or formatted reports, fill out forms, invoices, “copy” and “paste” any records or sets of records from DATAFAST files into your MacWrite documents (letters, mamos, articles), you can also generate “text files" to be accessed by other programs and computers * You can use predefined formats of records (included) or define your own formats DATAFAST is very fast even when your data files are large. It can handle even the most demanding professional applications. DATAFAST supports data files as large as your disk; 6800 lines of text (250k) on a512k Macintosh, 1500 lines of text on a 128k Macintosh Runs on 128k or 512k Macintosh. External disk drive and hard’ disk are supported but not required To order send check or money order for $49 (includes sa i at peqetina? to: (the developers of STATFAST) 2831 East 10th Street, Suite 3, Tulsa, OK 74104. (918) 583-4149 Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. VISA Circle 302 on reader service card 22 September 1985 Note Pad programs, but none were satis- factory, One day, at a meeting of my staff, I described my dream scheduling system. Steve Young mentioned the concept to his wife, Debbie Willrett. She promptly quit her job at another computer com- pany and in a few incredible weeks created the first pro- totype of LisaProject. We relied heavily on that program throughout the remainder of the development period. The marketing department was im- pressed by its utility and de- cided to make it a product. One story that was exagger- ated in books and articles was the tension between the L and Macintosh teams. As in any friendly rivalry, some indi- viduals took the competition too seriously. By and large, the teams gave each other both moral and technical support. Half the Macintosh program- mers came from the Lisa group, and most of those were work- ing on both Lisa and Macintosh tasks at the same time. We were saddened when the merger of our divisions forced the elim- ination of many duplicate and obsolete jobs, but most of the displaced employees found positions elsewhere in the company, and the rest dis- covered that Lisa developers are well-regarded in Silicon Valley. Newspapers and magazines like to feature stars, and as a re- sult a few members of the Lisa team received the lion’s share of the publicity and credit for the product. Everyone who worked on the Lisa knows that it was a team endeavor. My most lasting memory will be of how much everybody cared about the quality of the prod- uct. Every 80-hour workweek, every canceled vacation, every hot debate, and every wrench- ing management decision was driving force: we wanted our product to be the best. By my reckoning the Lisa en- gineering effort took three years from product definition and first prototype to full pro- duction. In the end we had pro- duced the first multitasking windowing system for a per- sonal computer. In my opinion the Lisa Office System still out- classes its IBM PC imitators: more than two years after its first public demonstration. Tam sure that every former member of the Lisa Develop- ment Team is proud of our ac- complishment. We put our hearts, minds, and lives into fulfilling a dream. Its role in the product line will be filled by the 512K Macintosh with a 20- megabyte ha grated applications. The Lisa manufacturing line may be closed, but the accomplishment lives on in the lower-cost, higher-performance Macintosh. Larry Tesler continues at Ap- ple Computer as manager of a group exploring software development methodology. ClickOn orksheet A Spreadsheet and Graphics Desk Accessory Integrate spreadsheets and graphics into MacWrite" (or any other application) Let's say you're in MacWrite. Without leaving it, you click on a spreadsheet for some quick calculations. Then click on a bar, pie or line chart, made directly from your spreadsheet. Now paste them both into your MacWrite document. Done. All without leaving MacWrite, and without changing programs or disks, And even on your 128k Mac. fa This is an example of using ClickOn Worksheot in conjunction with ‘MacWrite, Notice that both windaws are vistble and that you can move directly {rom Mac Write or other plate feceaee < O 6 iines/inch __Cllekon™ Worksheet MacWrite Memo and ClickOn Worksheet New Power for your Desktop ClickOn Worksheet is a desk accessory that adds a spreadsheet and grapher to any application. The 50 row X 20 column spreadsheet includes features such as variable column widths, absolute/relative addressing, built-in financial calculations (like net present value, compounding, future value) and logical operators. In addition, you can “fold” the spreadsheet to see and graph different parts of it at the same time. € File Edit Suarh Formut Font stile Worksheet ClickOn™ Worksheet ECC Lies Tr 7 [saps el awed | SRE RR et ie SS i eee ClickOn™ Graph | Bjecetas, evenvcatativws) 200 25 199 Reyer sate is aes 30 Hh eraesteo 3 2 Tak Queter 2nd Quarter Sed Ovrter 4) Ourter a MacWrite Memo ‘Thisis an example of using ClickOn Worksheet in conjunction with ‘MacWrite, Notice that both windows are visible and that you can move direetly from MacWnite or other application to the Worksheet Cash Forecast 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Revenues(millions) Regular Salary $479 $10.52 $23.11 $50.77 Kick-backs $25.94 $56.98 $125.18 §275.03 Bribes(in) $18.75 $41.20 $9052 $198.87 Total Revenues: $49.48 $108.70 = $238.81 $524.67 ‘We have copied and pasted the spreadsheet into this Mac Write memo. Once copied into MacWrite, itis possible to change the font or font style of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet shows revenues and expenses by month ‘with quarterly summaries. We used the folding" ability ofthe Worksheet ‘to-copy and graph only the quarterly resus instead of the entire spreadsheet Rovenues(miliions) Requarso D kiektacks BE erbestin) ‘stGuarter 2nd Quarter Sd Guartor ath Quarter Bar graph created directly from spreadsheet ‘lickOn isa wademark of PMaker Company. Macintosh isa irademark licensed to Apple Compute, Ine MacWrite is a trademark of Apple Computer, Ine. Presentation-quality Charts in an Instant By simply selecting the data you want charted, the Worksheet creates pie charts, bar graphs (stacked or adjacent) or line charts, complete with automatic axes and legends. Any changes in the spreadsheet are immediately reflected in the graph. Ready-made Solutions ‘To make your job even easier, we've included a dozen popular applications templates, including income statement/balance sheet with financial ratios, lease/purchase analysis, loan repayment schedule, stock portfolio, and depreciation schedules. Requirements: 128k or 512k Macintosh™ Price: $79.95 Power from within ‘Maker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA 94043 415/962-0195 Circle 29 on reader service card Powerful software that turns the ordinary mouse into an intelligent}, business partne How can this ber Pgs it’s quite simple. You see, the people at EXECUCOM Systems Corporation had a great idea. First, develop a powerful Decision Support Software System that allows you to describe (model) your business problems and situations using understandable terms and calculations. A system that helps you analyze information faster and better, A system that can communicate—with other PC’s and with our mainframe Decision Support System, IFPS®, And, a system that gives you precise answers for accurate decision-making, and helps turn complex business problems into simple solutions. Second, design this software system around a computer that understands you. That understands how you think. A computer that’s easy for you to learn and simple for you to operate. This powerful system is called MindSight™. It’s designed for the Apple Macintosh™, the computer for the rest of us. And it’s from EXECUCOM, the leader in Decision Support technology. Now people who really need to use compu- _# ters, like you, have . Decision Support, use, MindSight duces the _ time required for you to be- Y come productive with acom- ¥ puter, a system that helps reduce / the time required for you to acton’ important business matters. And MindSight is a system so simple, you can operate it with an ordinary mouse. If you think, as we do, that MindSight is a great idea, call us. Or drop us a line. We would love to tell you more about MindSight and how it can become your intelligent business partner. EXECUCOM Systems Corporation 3410 Far West Boulevard, Austin, TX 78731 (1-800-531-5038; in Texas or Canada, 512-346-4980). EXECUCOM, the number one choice of the Fortune 500 in Decision Support Software. Continuing a decade of excellence. @ EXECUCOM "A CONTEL COMPANY a powerful System they can is a system that re- of EXECLCOM Systems Corporation. Macintosh is a traclemark Comparer Inc, MindSihx euns on 512K MAC. Second disk deve recommend 5 é HF ICP 10 Million Dollar Award Circle 318 on reader service card Introduci FileMaker. Because just having information isn’t enough. You have to be able to do whatever you want with it. Arrange it Rearrange it. Massage it. Embellish i FileMaker™ lets you not only store and organize your business infor- mation, but also manipulate it in limit- less ways, to create literally any kind of form or report you want. First of all, FileMaker lets you change direction, any time, without redoing everything. It even lets you start out without a direction. And in addition to doing what a database is supposed to do—calcula- tions, summary reports, sorting of all kinds —FileMaker does everything you boughtyour Macintosh" for. Textediting. Graphics. Pull-down menus. Windows. Different fonts and graphic design tools. Your information not only makes more sense, it makes an impression. With FileMaker, you can put information in any way you want, 2 teas ehh cies jog sect Wheels wiv 28 c without arbitrary limitations. It auto- matically indexes every word, number and date for speedy searches. Since you design your output right on the screen, you can see exactly what you (and your customers) are going to get. And you can create any number of forms for presenting your information. So an order acknowledgement can become a clear, friendly letter. Or a comparison of inventory by vendor. Or parts lists, receiving verifications, purchase orders, labels, name badges, rosters and hit lists. You can pick up data from other programs, like MacWrite,” MacPaint;* Multiplan™ Jazzy" share the applications you’ve created with other members of your team, or con- solidate group efforts into one data- base. And FileMaker is not copy protected, so it’s easier to use, easier to back up, easier to configure for the Macintosh Office. 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Omni-Reader, the hard- ware accessory that “reads” typewritten text into the Macin- tosh, combined with a speech synthesis module could make the Mae an inexpensive Kurz- weil-type reading machine. In case you are not familiar with it, the Kurzweil reading ma- chine, which sells for about $10,000, creates audible output from printed text The Kurzweil machine has some features that a Ma tem would not, such mati auto- scanning and page turn- ing, With the Omni-Reader you have to scan each line man- ually, which I'm sure wouldn't bea problem for a blind reader with feedback from the com- puter and a little practice. The system that I envision would utilize a multiregion screen. Tones would let a blind reader know where the pointer is on screen. By clicking ona particular region, the reader could choose to enter a new file, listen to an old one, or per- haps choose some other op- tion. The person would touch- type to enter file names to be read back or stored. The center of a Macintosh system dedicated to blind people would be an echo ca- pability, which would echo the pull-down menu items and other options using a speech synthesis module. It should also be possible to echo key- strokes—making possible a touch-typing tutorial for the blind-and dialog boxes. Andrew Shalit Cambridge, Massachusetts Fortune Fifth Column In “Can the Mac Save Apple?” (Macworld, June 1985], David Bunnell questions the need for Apple to be overly concerned about the office network con- cept in its quest for sales among the Fortune 1000 companies. Most people don't under- stand that a company, like the one I work for, is really hun- dreds of relatively small organi- zations working within the large structure. At our com- pany, individuals within the small organizations, who need to accomplish tasks quickly and at low cost, are beginning to buy Macintoshes, either by spe- cial-request purchase through the company or with their own funds. They are the network that Apple should be developing. Our corporate systems people deal with those com- puter companies that deliver mainframe and communica- tions systems, such as IBM, Dig- ital Equipment Corporation, and Hewlett- ard. Not sur prisingly, the company encour- ages employees to buy per- sonal computers from those companies and not from Apple. However, in an innovative, competitive company, produc- tivity and performance still carry the day. In the last few weeks, | have seen evidence of Mac purchases in our com- pany’'s labs and among its sales representatives. People like us who are using the Mac in the Fortune 1000 companies are Apple’s best chance to dramat- ically increase its share of that market. Macworld The key is for Apple to serve the individuals who are proy- ing to management that the Mac is a valuable business tool. Apple needs to communicate with Mac owners who are em- ployees of large corporations, whether through the mail or through a company user group. Apple should offer incentives such as upgrades or other im- provements as a reward to in the sale of Maes to other employees or are ideas and experi- ing the Mac for com- pany business. Management looks for evidence of increased productivity but likes to be shown by its own people. Arecent Wall Street Journal article suggested that Apple was retreating from the For- tune 1000 market. I'm betting that Apple will keep on improv- ing the Macintosh and will be- gin to spend more of its promo- tional dollars to get Mac owners to help sell more Macs The question is, can Apple save the Mac without paying more astute attention to Mac owners? William M. Odum Atlanta, Georgia (continues on page 30) N 8 _ Maccessories. 16 ways to i improve _ the performance of your Macintosh. — Maccessories from Kensington Microware—an entire family of products to enhance your Mac- intosh. Maccessories make your computer more convenient. They increase your system’s flexibility. And they protect your investment. Control Center Organizes all your power needs, Styled to fit underneath your sec‘ ond disk drive, it provides fingertip control over your whole system. There’s a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and individual switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. And Control Center protects your entire Macintosh system from dam- aging power surges, line noise and static shocks. [2] Surge Suppressor Portable protection for a travelling Macintosh. Surge Suppressor re- places your power cord, providing UL listed surge suppression and line noise filtering. It’s light and fits easily into your carrying case. [3] Universal Printer Stand Raises your Apple® Imagewriter® at aslight angle so you can monitor its performance more easily. It solves the problem of where to store paper—several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. (Also fits most other dot matrix printers.) 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Letters (continued from page 27) Keyboard Commando Lagree with Nich: avroff's critical remarks regarding Lode Runner (“The Galactic Com- mando Rides Again,” Macware Reviews, Macworld, August 1985]. Using the mouse to pl: round or two of the game genuine exercise in frus and Iam sure that implement- ing his suggestions would im- prove the feel of the game. While waiting for the im- provements to be made, how- ever, | recommend that all ea- ger galactic commandos simply use the Keyboard Play option on the Options menu, which your reviewer neglected to mention. The Keyboard Play option is sufficient to maneuver our heroic commando through all 150 levels of the Bungeling ya Empire’s treasury. Pointer prob- lems notwithstanding, Lode Runner is an excellent little ad- dition to the Macintosh soft- ware library. I would like to addr question to the people at one Broderbund. How soon can we expect a Mac version of the strategy game The Ancient Art of War? The mouse would probably work well with this unique game. M. Brio San Luis Obispo, California The Apple of His Red Eye I recently got over my fear of computers and finally dis- covered how incredibly easy they are to use. | flirted with the He and the Ic, but when a friendly salesperson showed me the Mae, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was as if I'd been stranded in a foreign country for years and finally met someone | could talk to. Even with its considerable price tag, my wife wouldn’t let me leave the store without a zine is great, too. Now if can only get some sleep. Ronald Lerner Milledgeville, Georgia Time Is Money T have read letters in your mag- azine from pioneerin; tosh buyers complain how much they paid Macs. However, they fa sider the benefits they ob- tained from having a Mz lier than subsequent bu’ my humble opinion, the sates for the ehishen price pa aid for the Mac. For example, in June of last year I decided to write a book. I started writing it using my old method; that is, | wrote the f draft ay ha and, gave it to my sec- ig, correctes dand rev! ed the results, returned the manuscript to the secretary for typing, and so on. I soon re- alized that this method, which worked well for short a would never do for a book that Thad committed to finish in three months. Consequently, I started looking for a computer. I had never used a computer; in fact, | had an uncon: animosity toward the m: rious machines. Howe! knew I needed one to finish the book in time. I went to a com- puter store and started playing with a Mac. I liked it right away. Within 3 hours of unpacking that incredible r writing my book. Sure I made (continues on page 34) AN ERGONOMIC WORKSTATION FOR MACINTOSH THAT MEANS BUSINESS Ergotron’s new Maclilt” is the professional ergonomic workstation that provides the utmost in operator flexibility and viewing comfort. 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Neon is easy to work with from the beginning, and quickly puts you at the leading edge of professional software development. With Neon, you're already in the soft- ware business because there are no licensing fees. Ever. If you are about to pro- gram for the first time, you'll appreciate the comprehen- sive manual by Danny Goodman Circle 246 on reader service card that guides you through the commands and concepts. For the’professional, Neon is the only choice. Created by Kriya Systems, Inc. for the development of our Typing Tutor III” key- board instruction program, Neon is your answer to software artistry with the Mac. Call 1-800-621-0660 now with Visa or MasterCard, or send your check to Kriya Systems, Inc. 505 N. Lake Shore Drive, Suite 5510, Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 822-0624, to order your copy of Neon. The price is $299. As a special introductory offer, you may purchase Neon and full docu- mentation through June 30, 1985 for $155, including shipping and handling. Marry a Laserjet to your Mac. With LASERSTART. The completely compatible printer driver. Your Macintosh teamed with Hewlett-Packard’s LaserJet. A combination designed to deliver—super speed, ultra quiet—spectacular graphics and laser quality text, perfect to the letter. All you need is LASERSTART software for a LaserJet marriage made in paradise. $95 at your Hewiet!-Packard dealer. Package comes complete with soltware rir FIT) SoftStyle’ SoftStyle, Inc. » 7192 Kalanianaole Hwy. » Suite 205 Honolulu, Hawaii 96825 « Toll free (800) 367-5600 Circle 260 on reader service card R, for MacPaint and MacWrite! Oo Mac Measure ====a{ — 2.750" | 10.266" Mac Measure-- a desk accessory that displays your h current pointer position in inches, cm., or screen dots. 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Ravil Arias de Para Panama City, Panama Putting Up with Genius All those reasons David Bun- nell mentioned for owning a : [“Does the Mac Mean Busi- 2” Macworld, March 1985] can easily be justified, but | doubt more and more whether the Mac truly has use, Apple would like to give a business image to an egg- wool milk-sow, a computer that has always leaned toward the artistic, | remember when the first Macs appeared here a little over a year ago; you had to fight through seven layers of small boys to geta look at the screen. I wouldn't have bought one then exclusively for busines use, and knowing the machine better now, I wouldn't do so yet. Professionals will not put up: with the Me huffling and other idiosyncrasies. The Mac is a great little machine, but pa- tient indulgence is often re- quired to put up with its genit Hansjorg W. Zeller Zurich, Switzerland The Early Word Catches the Bugs Word is typical untested Micro- soft software. Among the 15 bugs and seven shortcomings: that I have written to Microsoft about, the following are the most troublesome. The program abandons the Macintosh’s what what-you-get capability. T! only way to check header and footer placement, for instance, is to print the document, Even the Apple I] could show page breaks, page numbers, head- ers, footers, and footnotes on screen. Since Word underlines car- riage returns, you cannot sim- ply select a line or a paragraph and underline it. You mus lect the text by dragging from the first character to the last character. The program lacks macros. Deleting 1586 carriage returns from an imported document took hours, On my trusty Apple Il, it would have taken a couple of minutes with macros. Along the same line, the only way to add carriage returns for an up- load to CompuServe is to insert them by hand because Word doesn't have a print-to-disk op- tion, which most word proces- sors have. Microsoft must know that Word is slow to the point of being unusable on a 128K Mac. Sometimes it accepts a typed character only once every 5 seconds, even in Screen Draft mode, It prints only four pages per hour in high-resolution mode, In summary, I think Word is a second-rate word processor that Microsoft released too soon and that the company, needs to fix with a version L.1 Russ Coffman Dunwoody, Georgia Discouraging Word One of Word's worst problems is its inability to handle docu- ments wider than the Macin- tosh screen. Trying to set up the margins for a 7-inch-wide document was an exercise in frustration; the method for sing the ruler is neither self- explanatory nor well docu- mented, The secret seems to be in setting the left and right mar- gins so that they total 2.5 inches, You can print a 7-inch document by setting a left mar- gin of 0.8 inch and a right mar- gin of 1,7 inches; it doesn’t seem to matter that the total width of 9.5 inchi an inch wider than your paper. The document prints out with a left margin of 0.8 inch and a right margin of 0,7 inch. In addition, horizontal scroll- by typing the document the width of the screen and—when you're finished—selecting the text and moving the margins. Another Word bug c out when you add footnotes to a document that is in a 10-point font, Whenever you return to your document from the foot note, the program converts font size from 10-point to 12-point. The only simple solution is to type the document in 12-point type and change it to 10-point when you're done. Now that MacWrite has been improved, I’m not sure that i as weak as critics say, In many ways I preter it to Word. Please keep up the excellent quality of your magazine. With- out it my Mac would not be half the fun, Peter Yudkin Somerton Park, South stralia Australia Areliable source has tipped us about another Word oddity. The LaserWriter prints out boldjace text in a Word docu- ment with unsightly extra space between words. 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Ma Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Apple isa trademark of Apple Computer, Inc, Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of International Husiness Machines Corporation Circle 232 on reader service card CORVUS INTRODUCES SHARED STORAGE. FOR THEREST OF THE OFFICE. Witout mass storage thatevery a floppy could never do, With Omni- ) capability. Plus, you get Macintosh can access, your net- Drive and OmniTalk, your Macintosh ae three levels of protec- worked office won't have aprayer. Office has faster access to wee tion to keep your files safe. Because you'll stillhave to software and data, greater And with the Corvus 126MB share data by swapping floppies. storage capacity,even hard disk, it all costs less per And just consider easier back-up megabyte than any other how fast a floppy 7 _ system. You see, Corvus has disk fills up with an : “more experience net- entire workgroup working than anyone compiling data. else. 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Several people can even access the same information at once—something Circle 206 on reader service card Macworld View Macintosh typesetting shops, public-domain utilities, a world atlas at the click of a mouse, and more Edited by Herschel Schmedick The news this month suggests that the 512K Macintosh, the LaserWriter, and high- powered integrated software have picked up the baton Srom the original frontrun- ning hardware and software. LaserWriters are showing up next to copy machines at copy centers, Latin American universities bave purchased 6000 512K Macs, Mac music programs are hooking up with synthesizers, and people are Jinding new ways to express themselves with their machines. Your contributions are wel- come. Macworld pays up to $50 for each item published. Send your contributions to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. All published submr ms be- come the property of Mac- world. / look forward to hear- ing from you. Macworld South of the Border tlt, lt, tl, sill, il, ills. Apple's University Consortium Program is gaining momentum south of the border, The Latin American consortium consists of schools in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. As in Europe and North America, Apple is of- fering selected schools in those countries discount pricing, technical support, and the slickest personal computer in the west. Metropolitan Univer- sity in Caracas, Venezuela, agreed to purchase 6000 512K Macs over a three-year period, with 4000 to be delivered this year. This was the university's 39 first purchase of personal com- puters, and school officials did extensive evaluation of other computer systems, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, be- fore choosing the Mae. As with the other consortium univer- sities in North America and Eu- rope, students and faculty re- ceive about a 40 percent discount. Besides the Macs, the university ordered some Macin- tosh XLs, and 75 percent of the machines will come equipped with an Imagewriter and an ex- ternal disk drive. Each student and instructor will have a Mac at home. In addition the Monterrey In- stitute of Technology in Mexico City, which previously used Ap- ple Is, has committed funds to buy 1000 Macs, and the Catholic ity of Chile will pur- ¢ 1000 machines over a ir period. The choice of the Mac by these schools in- dicates that Apple is winning converts worldwide, ASE AE AB ES BS New Laser Fonts The LaserWriter is edging closer to becoming a real type- setting machine with the addi- tion of several new typefaces to the printer's font library. By the end of the year Palatino, Op- tima, ITC Bookman, ITC Avant- Garde Gothic, ITC Zapf Chane- ery, American Typewriter, Cen- tury Schoolbook, ITC Souvenir, Glypha, and ITC Zapf Dingbat will be available for the Laser- Writer, Each of these typefaces will have an equivalent screen typeface for the Mac in five Liz Bond, marketing man- ager of Adobe Systems, the company that created Postscript (the language the LaserWriter uses to print text and graphics), explains that these typefaces were chosen to complement Helvetica and Times Roman, the original set of typefaces re- leased for the LaserWriter. In the Public Domain a real Eo In the old days utilities were necessities provided by uncar- ing monopolies. Now, in the computer age, utilities are small but appreciated pro- grams, usually produced on a shoestring budget, that make computing more convenient. Many useful utilities are avail- able from user groups and MicroNet Apple User's Group (MAUG) on CompuServe. A good example is Bill Atkinson's Screen Maker, found in MAUGss Data Library 5 as SCRMAK.HEX. The program lets you replace the startup sereen (“Welcome to Macin- tosh”) with one of your own design. Another program, Menu Edi- tor (MENUED.HCX in Data Li- brary 5 of MAUG), by Andy Hertzfeld, lets you assign %-key equivalents to menu options. ‘Two suggestions: always have the Menu Editor on the same disk as the program you are customizing, and always select Save from the File menu before quitting the program if you want to preserve your modifications. While many helpful desk ac- cessory utilities are available, two in particular are worth mentioning. Transfer, TRANS2.HCX in Data Library 4, pas: ou from one applica- tion to another without going back to the Finder. The time saved is significant, to say the least. David Dunham's Diskinfo desk accessory, DSKIDA.HCX or DSKINEDOC in Data Library 3, allows you to check the amount of free RAM and disk space, the size of every file, and other information. Best of all, you can delete files from within an application to free up disk space or just to clean house. With Transfer and DiskInfo in the Apple menu, you can avoid unnecessary trips to the Finder. —Robert C. Eckbarat Industrial Light and Macintosh Would Luke Skywalker use a Mac? Of course, and the Em- pire’s starships would be fully equipped Macintosh offices, complete with laser printers for sending finely printed docu- ments throughout the galaxy. As for Chewbacca, how could that hairy fellow possibly oper- ate a computer unless he laid his paw on a mouse? If the en- Craig Hosoda tire cast of Star Wars is poten- tial Mac partisans, what about the folks at Lucasfilm, who cre- ated those characte tered throughout the County, California, facilities of George Lucas’s entertainment empire are numerous Macs, now being used for word pro- Macworld 41 cessing, storyboarding, and other business tasks. At Indus- trial Light and Magic, the spe- cial effects arm of the company, programmer Craig Hosoda has begun to work up a system that can be run froma Mac with MacTerminal to control mo- tion of the special effects cam- eras and scale models. The Lucasfilm games divi- sion is not currently developing home video games for the Mac- intosh, but according to pro- grammer David Levine, that's primarily because there are “not enough Macs out in the market to make it feasible. I hope that the Mac really takes off, but on the other hand, as a game designer, the lack of dedi- cated processors for graphics, sound, and faster input and out- put on the Mac makes it diffi- cult to do the kinds of real-time simulation games we do. Get- ting all that stuff working with one 68000 processor is pretty tough.” Levine thinks that the best games on the Mac will be interactive games in which sev- eral players participate on a network. “We have one big disadvan- tage when it comes to creating new software. Hundreds of movie theaters around the world show our boss's state-of- the-art software, so every game we produce has to be pretty sensational."—Jeffrey S. Young 6666626 ee Electronic Atlas Software Concepts of Wal- lingford, Connecticut, has come up with the electronic equivalent of a world atlas. In- stead of spinning a globe or bunting through the vast index of a 10-pound atlas of the world, you can look up maps of coun- tries, states, and cities by typing in aname and zooming in on ctions of a map. You can mag- nify portions of the map up to five times. The maps are linked to a database of fact sheets on 2500 cities. Distances between cities or countries can be calcu- lated automatically in miles, nautical miles, or kilometers An interesting aspect of this product is the Phoenix Plan, a unique marketing concept. The company’s president, William J. ‘Tobin, devised a clever way to let people sample a special ver- sion of the product in their homes or offices, You can use the program on three occa- sions for 30-minute sessions to help you decide if you want to purchase Ad/as. The fourth u try to run the pro- gram, it refuses to start up. You can obtain the trial version by sending $6.95 to Software Con- cepts, RO. Box 3323, Wal- lingford, CT 06494, or check with your local Macintosh dealer. If you like the program, you call the company, purchase ‘the program via credit card, and get the code to unlock the program, If you decide not to buy the program, you can refor- mat the disk for your own use. — Janet McCandless new enterprise could take. Krishna Copy aims its Laser- Writer services at students, small-business owners, and graphic artists who occasion- ally need to print outa thesis, a business proposal, or camera- ready art 512K Macs, a | ThunderScan digitizer. kr fakin charges $6 per hour for the Macs, which can be used to prepare files for the Laser- Writer, and 30 cents per page for printing. The store provides the necessary software, a pro- gram that installs the Laser Writer fonts and printer driver on disk, to alter customers’ word processing programs to work with the LaserWriter. It also has an IBM PC and transla- tion software that enables PC owners to use the LaserWriter. ‘Translation costs $35 per hour; a 20-page paper takes about 15 minutes to convert, according to Krishna staff. On the other side of town, Cleo’s Duplication Service pur- sues a different tac LaserWriter bt toward commercial accounts, says David Marshall, Cleo's op- erations manager, who's a grad- uate student in computer sci- ence at the University of California. Cleo’s is going head to head against typesetting op- erations, courting large, mostly computer-related companies that in the past have brought their typesetting busines: documentation, newsletters, forms—to the type shops. Cleo’s prices favor people who print large documents: $3.50 per page for 1 page, $1.80 per page for 2 to 3 pages, $1.35 per page for 4 to 7 pages, on he aly unis two e Laser Copia It looks like the LaserWriter has spawned a new subspecies of business: inexpensive typeset- ting shops. Two copy centers in Berkeley, California, may fore- shadow two of the forms this down to 45 cents per page for 500 pages or more. To induce customers to use the store’s photocopying facilities for printing, Cleo's gives rebates of up to 80 cents of free copying for each dollar spent on type- setting. Cleo’s lends Macs free of charge to its larger custom- ers, and the company is install- ing three data lines to enable customers to phone in their work, As David Marshall explains, “Right now the LaserWriter is a boon for small print shops. The typesetting industry is losing some of its work, and it'll have to get up and start running to try to match our setup” No doubt it will. And no doubt we've seen only the merest be- ginning of some of the ide: entrepreneurs will come up with for putting LaserWriter technology to work. —j. Van Norden Moscow Macintosh Se Se St en SS He Re repenain Aeayerenneeuon XY wreaat et | 2umem The Soviet Union has not signed a contract with Apple to purchase Macs, but Profes Tom J. Lewis of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, is Russifying the Mac for his comrades. ising the Apple’s Font Editor, Lewis created four Cyrillic fonts—Mos Kazan, and Ode: 42 September 1985 ‘ow, Gorky, a—1N Various zes. With the Resource Editor and Screen Maker uti Sanjay Sakbuja of create a personal publishing center where customers keep dozens of Mach loshes, LaserWriter: and copy machines busy Lewis created a Russian- language version of MacWrite and the Macintosh System and Finder files, Mos rer Geneva and New York as the system fonts, and all menus, dialog boxes, and alert i sidering cony other applications to Russian, and he is extending his font de- velopment to more arcane lan- guages. He is currently design- ing a font based on Mayan hieroglyphies. The Font Editor, the Resource Editor, and Screen Maker are all available on CompuServe or from user groups. Krishna Copy hopes to New Music While the current batch of mu- ic programs for the Macintosh gives you the equivalent of word processing for music composition, creating music with a mouse anda computer keyboard leaves much to be de- sired. Occasionally you might find a Mac performing in pub- lic, but most serious musicians agree that the Mac’s four-voice sound reproduction capabili- ties are limited. The key to overcoming the Mac’s limita- alled the musical instrument digital in- terface (MIDI). By attaching a MIDI box to one of the Mac's receive encoded musical mes- sages to and from an instru- ment connected to the MIDI companies are ac: tively working on MIDI prod- ucts for the Mac, including Macromind, the originator of Hayden Software's Music- Works; Mark of the Unicorn, developer of Professional Compos ‘lectronic creator of Music Construction Set; and Musicworks, not to be confused with the program of the same name. The MIDI products enter your compositions from a syn- thesizer keyboard and store them on the Mac as well as play back creations, using up to 16 tracks of synthesizer output. Just play on and let the Mac commit your creations to Macworld = 43 REPETITIVE NOW YOU C ONCE AN | lawyers, marketing and sales executives, real estate agents, and anybody else who repeatedly, repetitively prepares letters or documents that are in the same vein-yet never identical Oh, the drudgery of continually preparing documents that repeat themselves ~yet are never so alike that you can either duplicate them or reduce them to form letter proportions. All those words, all those figures, all those hours spent scribbling, patching, rearranging, It's all over. Glory be! Introducing the Document Modeler from ‘The Model Office Company. Although it is crystal clear just what our remarkable new productivity tool does, just how dramatic is its impact? Do we describe it as revolutionary? As a radical advance? Or do we peg it more modestly? i o know: if you have to write ewhere between ginal creat Its ancestry. The Document M might well be termed revolutionary; there's certainly nothing like it, However, “revolutionary” implies throwing over the traces completely and the Document Modeler does owe its origins to earlier marvels of the computer age. Such as word processing—although it goes way beyond word processing (see example). The Document Modeler is also more than a spreadsheet. It can calculate, recalculate and © File_Eait_Oocument mi File tait docu ker ‘ur records indicate that your account of Reference {cere AT Multiple Choice Check Aged Check figed Recount fnceionble erent accvene | Rea) file, Overdue days nite. overdue days | findicate the number of days the eccount is } are counted {rom lore counted from | Jouerdue: the last day of the the last day of the bl month following the month rovowing the | egy month of imaicing. [>] month of nvotcing, [-) 5 Bh FI Sansa 090 Bacument i 6 120 1 None of the abave, LJ Door tr. Smith Dear tir Smith i] (ur recaras inaicote thet your eccount of $5,000.00 All kinds of documents, big or small, are a breeze. Collection leiters, for example, (No doubt you'll have different needs, but ihe principle's the same). Affer creating the model, the credit manager turns over the job to a worker bee. As ihe simple prompts are ‘answered (Screens #1 and #2) the letter is composed a block at a time. The reference section warns of potential piffalls and gives format numbers with the best of them. But it goes further— fluently molding and manipulating words, sentences and paragraphs as well. Producing impeccable documents with words and figures mixed = exactly how you want them id, Nothing else will do as much. ‘The Document Modeler is also much like an expert system. Except that its “just plain folks’ -a professor going for a beer with the boys, More street smart and flexible than an expert system, it allows for the umpteen variables of the business world and doesn’t demand fluency in a cryptic computer language. How it works. As an expert in your field, the Document Modeler makes it easy for you to write a script that allows for all the eventualities in a typical document. You don't need to know anything about programming: Learn a few simple procedures and you can create model documents-once and for all, For ever after, that particular family of documents can be delegated to somebody less senior, less experienced, less qualified —and less expensive, Basically, all they have to do is answer a series of prompts such as YES or NO, or make some multiple-choice selections, or just type in the particulars requested —all the while using guidelines and suggestions that appear on the screen just when they're most useful. All of them set out by you. Alternatively, you can chum out meticulously specific documents yourself. With whatever mix of standard and unique clauses you need. Without the drudgery. And in a fraction of the time. Take a morteage agreement, for example. With the model prepared by you, and set in motion by a few prompts, your Macintosh® will churn out the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, the entire document. Even the amortization tables, And they'll all be exactly right for that particular document. Down to the JOCUMENTS: \ DO THEM FOR ALL. © File fait Document Mob & file Eat Document Maker Le AT ves or No | Docent TS] Theek with the Door Hr. Smith a Yes. 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