IBM Announcement Letter No. ZP94-0253 dated March 15, 1994.
IBM Works for OS/2 and Windows
5604-571 IBM Works for Windows 5604-572 IBM Works for OS/2
5775-DK9 DUA for IBM Works for Windows 5775-DL0 DUA for IBM Works for OS/2 5775-EJ8 DUA for IBM Works for OS/2 OEM License 5775-EJ9 DUA for IBM Works for Windows OEM License
IBM Works is an integrated office application, running in both OS/2 Presentation Manager and Microsoft Windows (TM) Version 3.1 environments.
Five modules provide a full range of functions for personal productivity: Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Charting, Data Filer, and Reporting. Features include: sophisticated tables support and full-page editing capability in the Word Processor; split-screen scrolling in the 1024x768 Spreadsheet; direct manipulation of chart placement and titles, with integrated drawing facilities; a powerful database engine supporting multi-page forms, large text fields (up to 32K characters) and images, with extensions to provide for label printing; and interactive report generation, with 3 levels of nested control breaks.
Tight integration is achieved by use of dynamically linked data, Multiple Document Interface (MDI), Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) in the Windows (TM) version, and user-interface features that achieve consistency across all five modules.
Built-in Import/Export capabilities support a wide variety of industry standard text, spreadsheet, database and graphic file formats.
Part Number Description Availability
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93G4906 English - Windows May 1994
93G4907 English - OS/2 April 1994
93G4908 French - Windows May 1994
93G4909 French - OS/2 May 1994
93G4910 German - Windows May 1994
93G4911 German - OS/2 May 1994
93G4912 Italian - Windows June 1994
93G4913 Italian - OS/2 June 1994
93G4914 Spanish - Windows June 1994
93G4915 Spanish - OS/2 June 1994
93G4916 Swedish - Windows June 1994
93G4917 Swedish - OS/2 June 1994
93G4918 Norwegian - Windows June 1994
93G4919 Norwegian - OS/2 June 1994
93G4920 Portuguese - Windows July 1994
93G4921 Portuguese - OS/2 July 1994
93G4922 Dutch - Windows May 1994
93G4923 Dutch - OS/2 May 1994
93G4924 Finnish - Windows June 1994
93G4925 Finnish - OS/2 June 1994
93G4926 Danish - Windows June 1994
93G4927 Danish - OS/2 June 1994
93G4928 Swiss German - Windows May 1994
93G4929 Swiss German - OS/2 May 1994
93G4930 English - Windows for OEM May 1994
93G4931 English - OS/2 for OEM April 1994
93G4932 French - Windows for OEM May 1994
93G4933 French - OS/2 for OEM May 1994
93G4934 German - Windows for OEM May 1994
93G4935 German - OS/2 for OEM May 1994
93G4936 Italian - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4937 Italian - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G4938 Spanish - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4939 Spanish - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G4940 Swedish - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4941 Swedish - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G4942 Norwegian - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4943 Norwegian - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G4944 Portuguese - Windows for OEM July 1994
93G4945 Portuguese - OS/2 for OEM July 1994
93G4946 Dutch - Windows for OEM May 1994
93G4947 Dutch - OS/2 for OEM May 1994
93G4948 Finnish - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4949 Finnish - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G4950 Danish - Windows for OEM June 1994
93G4951 Danish - OS/2 for OEM June 1994
93G6930 IBM Works for OS/2 OEM License
93G6931 IBM Works for Windows OEM License
93G4952 Distribution and Usage Authorisation
IBM Works for Windows (English)
Version 1.0 Program number 5775-DK9
93G4953 Distribution and Usage Authorisation
IBM Works for OS/2 (English)
Version 1.0 Program number 5775-DL0
93G4954 Distribution and Usage Authorisation
IBM Works for Windows (Translated)
Version 1.0 Program number 5775-DK9
93G4955 Distribution and Usage Authorisation
IBM Works for OS/2 (Translated)
Version 1.0 Program number 5775-DL0
The user interface has been carefully designed to be both attractive and productive. In each module common elements recur - status line, ribbon bar, font control, file handling, etc. The movable Style palette provides rapid access to character styles, cutting down on mouse actions and keystrokes. Further productivity gains can be achieved by use of the Macros facility - where any combination of keystrokes can be recorded, and then played back at will.
Drawing tools are integrated within most of the modules - so no time is wasted in invoking a separate draw tool. A full function Spell Checker lets you verify and correct the spelling of your documents; the dictionary also provides synonyms and hyphenation support. Automatic generation and direct manipulation of tables in the Word Processor provides a fast and effective way of incorporating tabular data. The word processor also boasts a fully editable print preview mode - a feature common in desktop publishing packages, but rare in the word processor world.
The Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows several files from one application module - or a mixture of different modules - to be open at one time. Dynamically linked data in the OS/2 version and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) in the Windows (TM) version provides a compound document environment, not just with the IBM Works applications but also with external, OLE-enabled programs within a Windows environment.
Context Sensitive Help provides immediate assistance and minimises the need to refer to the product documentation.
In addition IBM Works for OS/2 version provides additional productivity benefits by exploiting multi-threading, and drag and drop of documents to Workplace Shell folders.
Spelling, synonym, and hyphenation support uses the IBM Desktop Dictionaries. And twin OS/2 and Windows 3.1 versions of the product allows for easy upgrading of operating system.
IBM Works has many features that are common to all the modules, allowing users to quickly become familiar with basic actions in all parts of the program. The use of core code to provide these facilities to the individual applications achieves a high level of integration within IBM Works.
Control of text formatting is made easy with the Styles palette and ribbon bar icons for character and paragraph formatting. More complex documents can be created by: adding pictures; drawing vector graphics directly onto the page; including charts or spreadsheets as OLE objects; and by using IBM Works's powerful tables facility. Layout operations are assisted by the fully editable print preview display, and a wide range of direct manipulation features: page margins, indents, tabs, headers and footers, object positioning and sizing, table handling, and palette positioning. Spell-checking, synonyms, and hyphenation provide extensive linguistics support, and there is mail-merge with Data Filer databases.
All the basic spreadsheet functions you'd expect, plus the ease of use that only a windowing environment allows. A broad range of formatting controls are provided, with a ribbon bar allowing fast access to charting, SUM function, character attributes, and other high-use options. Spreadsheet data may be hot-linked with charts and with word processor tables, and charts can be embedded within a spreadsheet.
Create charts directly from spreadsheet data, or by using Chart's own data table. A range of chart types and display options are available, and the user can draw directly onto the chart page, and via dynamically linked data put multiple charts onto one page. As elsewhere in IBM Works, direct manipulation figures prominently. The finished chart can be then be printed, or embedded in a Word Processor document or a spreadsheet.
Design multi-page forms containing a variety of different field types. Pictures and graphics can be included as part of the form layout, while image fields permit pictures to be inserted in records. Large text fields, of up to 32K bytes, are supported, and many options can be applied to fields. Extensions allow for label printing and the creation of multiple forms for a single database file. Indices are supported, as is conditional display and printing of records.
Context Sensitive Help provides immediate assistance and minimises the need to refer to the product documentation. Help features include:
IBM Works lets you print on a wide range of printers supported by OS/2 Presentation Manager and Microsoft Windows 3.1. With IBM Works's print features, you can do the following:
IBM Works lets you import data in file formats used by many popular programs that might be a part of your business software library.
IBM Works version 1.0 is not to be considered a network enabled product even though there are a number of operations that can be done using network drives and printers on many of the LANs supported by OS/2 and Windows 3.1.
Some of the options that can be performed on many of the LANs supported are:
Publications are shipped with the product and are
orderable by part number from Remarketeers.
They are also orderable via normal IBM Channels:
Title Part No Order No
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Installation and Learning Guide
Danish 93G7340 S93G7-340
Dutch 93G7286 S93G7-286
Finnish 93G7217 S93G7-217
French 93G7232 S93G7-232
German 93G7376 S93G7-376
Italian 93G7250 S93G7-250
Norwegian 93G7322 S93G7-322
Portuguese 93G7358 S93G7-358
Spanish 93G7268 S93G7-268
Swedish 93G7304 S93G7-304
UK 93G7202 S93G7-202
User's Guide
Danish 93G7341 S93G7-341
Dutch 93G7287 S93G7-287
Finnish 93G7218 S93G7-218
French 93G7233 S93G7-233
German 93G7377 S93G7-377
Italian 93G7251 S93G7-251
Norwegian 93G7323 S93G7-323
Portuguese 93G7359 S93G7-359
Spanish 93G7269 S93G7-269
Swedish 93G7305 S93G7-305
UK 93G7203 S93G7-203
System Requirements
IBM Works for OS/2
IBM Works for OS/2 runs under OS/2 Version 2.0 (5621-077) or OS/2 Version 2.1 (5604-467) or higher.
IBM Works for Windows runs
under OS/2 Presentation Manager version 2.1 (5604-467) or higher
or
Microsoft Windows version 3.1
or higher.
Microsoft Windows requires IBM DOS 3.30 (5604-025) or MS-DOS 3.30 or later
versions.
IBM Conditions of Use apply to all Dual Media packages, thus the program in a package may only be used on a single machine at any one time, even though the program may be provided in the package on two different sized media. If a customer wishes to use an IBM Conditions of Use program concurrently on more than one machine at a time, irrespective of the size of the medium, he must acquire that number of program packages equal to the number of concurrent users of the program.
IBM Works Version 1.0 is distributed with the following packaging:
IBM Works Version 1.0 uses the security and auditability features of OS/2 and Microsoft Windows version 3.1. User management is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
Consult your IBM Marketing Representative for the applicable One-Time Charge.
This program is available from IBM under the Terms and Conditions for Purchase, and is subject to the Conditions of Use contained in the program package.
The Conditions of Use authorize the customer to use the program on only one machine at any one time.
This Distribution & Usage Authorization is available under the Special Educational Allowance for Volume Orders of Authorization to Copy Selected IBM PC-PS/2 Conditions of Use Programs. Consult your IBM Marketing Representative for details.
IBM standard warranty of media. Warranty period 3 months (or the period required by local legislation, if greater).
This program is eligible for the Distribution & Usage Authorization for IBM programs. The customer may make copies upon receipt of an Authorization form which designates the program which may be copied and the quantity of copies authorized. Consult your IBM Marketing Representative for the applicable Charges, Terms and Conditions.
For program defect related problems, the following procedure for assistance in problem identification is applicable:
Customer information needed when submitting a problem:
This service, in accordance with the Service Statement included in the program package, will be available until the Service End Date August 24th 1997.
All European, Middle Eastern and African Countries.
The data in this letter is subject to the disclaimer in Letter ZS90-0112, which is available from IBM on request.