Now there is really no need to insert blank content frames and tables into documents. The dynamic toolbar will also alter itself to accommodate the currently-selected content frame. While we've covered many of the improvements to the AppleWorks foundation, there are a couple of major changes we've not yet mentioned. As many AppleWorks fans already know, the application traditionally ships with a Word Processing app, a Drawing app, a Painting app, a Database app, a Spreadsheet app, and a rarely-used Communications application. In an effort to give consumers more value for their buck and bump AppleWorks up to the standard of Microsoft's offerings, Apple has excised the outdated Communications app, and in its place installed a shiny new Apple-branded Presentations application.
Users can add spreadsheets, images, sounds, graphs and more to their presentations.
At the time this report was written, the AppleWorks presentation tools were incomplete and inaccessible via the latest beta of RainMaker. As these tools are enabled in coming weeks, we'll update you on their features. In the event that a user performs a clean install, or something else unknown happens to the AppleWorks installation, the AppleWorks application will automatically launch AppleWorks First Run and repair itself. In its current state, however, RainMaker uses a standard Apple Installer for its initial installation. By the time you've read this report, RainMaker should be in beta 5 of its development cycle, and requires between 10 and 15MB of RAM to operate.