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Software Publishing's $249 Professional Write Plus for Windows word processing software package offers just about all the word processing features any executive might need. The word processing program, which works with the Microsoft Windows 3.0 graphical user interface, features a bar across the top of the display that gives the user menu options. It is easy to change styles and faces, and it is also a simple task to adjust margins and spacing with the program; A spelling checker, a thesaurus and a grammar checker called Grammatik are included. Professional Write Plus can be connected to a local area network (LAN) and includes electronic mail features that allow users to communicate without leaving the main program. Documentation includes a 565-page user manual, a 16-page quick-reference manual and a 115-page guide to Grammatik.
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Claris Corp's $499 Hollywood 1.02, a presentation software package for the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface (GUI), reflects the trend in the computer software industry to market software for both the Apple Macintosh and Windows operating platforms. Claris is a subsidiary of Apple and this is the first Windows-based package it has released. Unfortunately, despite its Macintosh heritage, Hollywood is not an especially intuitive program and the documentation does not include changes in the latest release. Presentation software is by its nature complex, however. Users should also remember that Windows-based software requires hardware with a fair amount of power. In Hollywood's case, that includes at least an 80386-based microcomputer with 4Mbytes of RAM and 20Mbytes of free hard disk space.
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Animated Relativity, $199, from the Multimedia Library Inc, and Operation Frog, $124.95 for an Apple Macintosh version, $89.95 for an MS-DOS version and $79.95 for an Apple II version, from Scholastic Inc, are outstanding examples of educational software. Animated Relativity, intended for budding young scientists between the ages of 13 and 19, teaches Einstein's special theory one step at a time, using elementary geometry. The program requires a color Macintosh with at least 2Mbytes of system memory, a hard drive and System 6.0.7 or later. Operation Frog shows how to dissect an American bullfrog. The program has a 'reconstruction' mode, so that a dissected frog can be put back together again, providing a way to test a student's knowledge.
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