CLARIS INTRODUCES CLARISWORKS HOME PACK

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- May 23, 1994 -- Claris Corporation today announced immediate availability of the ClarisWorks Home Pack, a collection of templates designed to help home users streamline everyday tasks using ClarisWorks and their home PCs.

The ClarisWorks Home Pack features easy to use templates for anything from balancing the family checkbook and managing a budget to planning family activities and keeping track of friends and relatives. It lets both new and experienced personal computer users benefit from the capabilities of ClarisWorks integrated or "works" software.

"ClarisWorks use is very strong among users in home, small business and education markets," said Mike Davison, director of Solutions Marketing for Claris Corporation. "With the ClarisWorks Home Pack, we are providing home computer users with an extensive collection of templates designed to optimize their use of ClarisWorks�?another example of the Claris commitment to providing truly usable software solutions."

Manage a garage sale or track investments

The ClarisWorks Home Pack includes a variety of templates for creating fliers, announcements, bulletins, certificates and awards, invitations, personal stationary, newsletters, notices and resumes. Users simply replace template text with their own information to create great-looking results.

The Home Pack also contains home finance management tools to help balance a checkbook, manage a budget, track investments and calculate loan payments. It even contains a worksheet that helps users determine how much they can afford to spend when purchasing a home.

The ClarisWorks Home Pack features an electronic address book for home PC users to organize contact information about relatives, friends, neighbors, club members and business associates. A mail merge template can automatically insert these names and addresses to create custom form letters. Home organization templates give users the ability to create calendars of family events and maintain a list of all household belongings including their value-a real asset for insurance claims.

ClarisWorks is a best-seller

ClarisWorks, the award-winning software available for Windows and Macintosh, seamlessly integrates word processing, spreadsheet, charting, database, graphics and communications environments. With record sales that topped 1.7 million units by the end of 1993, ClarisWorks is the best-seller and installed-base leader among Macintosh integrated applications.

Both ClarisWorks for Windows and ClarisWorks for Macintosh have received outstanding press reviews and won several awards. Home Office Computing awarded ClarisWorks the EditorsÕ Pick for 1993 in the Integrated Software/Windows and Macintosh categories.

Pricing and availability

ClarisWorks Home Pack is available directly from Claris for $29. The Home Pack is available for use with ClarisWorks 2.0 and higher on Macintosh systems and ClarisWorks 1.0 on Windows systems. For general information about Claris products and non-technical questions, users should call Claris customer relations at (408) 727-8227.

Claris Corporation, a leading worldwide vendor of Windows and Macintosh applications for business, education and home, is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

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©1994 Claris Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Claris and ClarisWorks are registered trademarks of Claris Corporation. All other product names are property of their respective owners. ClarisWorks best-seller claim is based on total purchased units (licensed copies) worldwide of integrated ("Works") software applications for the Macintosh.