ClarisWorks: AppleWorks Evaluate Formulas Differently

This information was provided by Claris Corporation on 16 March 1998, and incorporated into Apple Computer's Tech Info Library.
This issue is corrected in 1.0v3.

AppleWorks and ClarisWorks evaluate formulas differently. Appleworks evaluates a formula from left to right. Clarisworks evaluates an * or / operator before + or -, even if that operator is to the right in the formula. For Example, 1+2*6 results as 18 in AppleWorks. However, since ClarisWorks evaluates multiplication and division before subtraction, ClarisWorks would return 13. To resolve this issue ClarisWorks should translate 1+2*6 to ((1+2)*6).
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012