Creative Writer 2, known as Mon Atelier d'Écriture in French and Junior Schreibstudio in German, was a
word processing program released in 1996 by
Microsoft Kids
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. The interface was updated and the program was now designed for
Windows 95
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.
New or changed features
* The menu has been rearranged, following a study carried out by Microsoft.
* The program ran in a window, ranging in size from
640x480
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pixels to
1024x768
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History
Various computer display ...
pixels, depending on the display resolution set on the computer. It did not run in full screen.
* Microsoft's Paint It!, from their
Plus for Kids pack, was included at no additional charge with Creative Writer 2. Although it was a separate program, it could be used to edit any images
double-click
A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button twice quickly without moving the mouse. Double-clicking allows two different actions to be associated with the same mouse button. It was developed by Bill Atkinson of Apple Computer (n ...
ed in a word processing document.
* Support for creating and publishing websites was also included through Microsoft's Web Publishing Wizard.
* Support for opening and saving in
Rich Text Format
)
As an example, the following RTF code
would be rendered as follows:
This is some bold text.
Character encoding
A standard RTF file can only consist of 7-bit ASCII characters, but can use escape sequences to encode other characters. Th ...
(.rtf) files and
text files (.txt).
* Nearly a dozen of
themes based on
nature
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and
sport
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s are included to customize the program's
look and feel
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. The demo only includes the
ocean
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theme.
Removed features
* Imaginopolis
* Support for
Microsoft Word (
.doc) files.
* The McZee character, although he makes a
cameo appearance
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as a
font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design.
In mod ...
and in the
clip art
Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is creat ...
gallery.
Viewer
The Microsoft Creative Writer 2 Document Viewer was available free of charge. It allows users without Creative Writer 2 to view, but not edit, .max files created with Creative Writer 2.
See also
*
Microsoft Home
*
Fine Artist
*
Creative Writer
References
External links
Creative Writer website (archived)*
tp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/kids/cw2install.exe Creative Writer 2 Trial Version Download
{{Microsoft Kids
Discontinued Microsoft software