Help working with fonts

Question

I wrote up a piece in Baskerville font. When I saved it in .txt and .doc and emailed to a friend who is on a PC, it came through somewhat garbled. I've had this problem before when I was also on a PC but used a font she didn't have on her machine. Is there anyway to change the font of the document without having to retype the whole thing?
I have used Word and WordPerfect on PCs and both of those programs allow you to change the font of an entire document by simply going to the top of the document and changing the font.
So far, I must admit, compared to Word and WordPerfect I'm not all that impressed with Appleworks. It seems to be rather behind the times with what it can do.

Answer 1

Hi Pearl,
Welcome to the discussions and the AppleWorks forum.
I have used Word and WordPerfect on PCs and both of
those programs allow you to change the font of an
entire document by simply going to the top of the
document and changing the font.
AppleWorks follows the standard Macintosh 'noun-verb' grammar:
Select an object (noun) then perform an action (verb).
For this specific instance
noun: Select all (Edit > Select All, or press command-A)
verb: Choose the new Font from the Text menu.
So far, I must admit, compared to Word and
WordPerfect I'm not all that impressed with
Appleworks.
Not surprising, considering the design parameters of the applications.
AppleWorks is not, and was never intended to be, a clone of MS Word (or of WordPerfect).
MS Word and WordPerfect are both single purpose (word processing applications, dedicated to doing that single job.
AppleWorks is a Jack-of-all-trades application capable of word processing, vector drawing, bitmap painting, spreadsheet calculations and data management plus basic network communications (up to version 5) or rudimentary slide show presentations (version 6).
It was designed to have similar capabilities to MicroSoft Works (not Word), and quickly supplanted that MS application on the Mac platform. Another design considerations was the limited memory and storage space available at the time of the initial design. AppleWorks (AW 6.2.9, OS X version only) does all the tasks above with an application that by itself takes about 7.6MB of hard disk space. The current version of MS Word fills about 20MB of your hard drive. Adding the rest of the MS Office suite bumps that to over 200 MB.
It [AppleWorks] seems to be rather behind the times
with what it can do.
True enough. AppleWorks 6 was released shortly before the first public issue of OS X (2000?), and was a 'Carbonisation' of AppleWorks meant, at least in part, to ensure that there would be a productivity application to run on OS X when it was publicly released. Since that time, Apple has seen fit to provide only minor updates to AppleWorks, and it's clear that the product is at the end of its development cycle, and is unlikely to see further updates or upgrades.
Steve Jobs as much as said that a year ago at the WWDC when he stated that in iWork, Apple was "building the successor to AppleWorks."
The old workhorse has come a long way, and it's not as fancy as some of those new-fangled automobiles, but it's still capable of doing a lot of work, and doing it well. If AppleWorks isn't capable of doing what you need, and you need, and are willing to pay for the extra bells and whistles offered by other applications, then by all means, spend the money to acquire them.
Regards,
Barry