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I need experienced advice on a software choice that our district will soon need to make. If purchase price were not a consideration, would we be wiser to purchase ClarisWorks, or Microsoft's Office software for almost 1000 computers to be purchased for teacher use? These computers, both Mac and DOS platforms with a choice of desktop or laptop models, will be placed with K-12 teachers for professional use, and whichever software we decide on will be bundled when the computers arrive. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with experience and advice, particularly those who have used both applications and have insights that a beginner may overlook. One such example is the observation that since MS Word is a disk-intensive program and PowerBook users dislike it since it depletes the battery too fast, given its frequent calls to the hard disk. Comments and critique welcome -- and thank you again. I'll post this information to the net if there is enough interest. Sheryl Steinke Eugene 4J Schools Eugene, OR steinke@4j.lane.edu