Editing MacWrite (section)

===MacWrite Pro===
In the late 1980s, Claris started a massive upgrade series to produce the "Pro" line of products. The main change would be to integrate all of their products with a consistent GUI based on that of [[FileMaker]]. This included a common toolbar running down the left side of the screen, and a number of standardized tool palettes. In addition, the Pro series also used common international spelling dictionaries and a thesaurus. The result was a suite of products that all look and work the same way, and are able to read and write each other's formats.

The resulting MacWrite Pro, released in early 1993, was a major upgrade from previous versions. Reviewers almost universally praised the new release as offering all the required tools while still being very easy to use.{{sfn|Assadi|1993|p=104}} However, development had been slow; one developer claimed it was primarily due to extremely demanding [[quality assurance]] requirements.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} By the time MacWrite Pro was released, Word completely dominated the word processor market. Pro did little to address MacWrite's rapidly dwindling market share, which briefly stabilized at about 5% of the market before starting to slide again. Sales were apparently dismal, and it was one of the first products Claris abandoned in the mid-1990s.

The word-processing module of [[AppleWorks]] was very similar to MacWrite Pro. While it was written entirely from scratch,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php|title=A Brief History of ClarisWorks|last=Hearn|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Hearn|year=2003|website=groups.csail.mit.edu|access-date=2016-07-24}}</ref> it retained some of the design limitations of MacWrite Pro. However, later versions of AppleWorks are unable to read older MacWrite Pro files.