Creative Writer 2, known as Mon Atelier d'Écriture in French and Junior Schreibstudio in German, was a

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program released in 1996 by

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. The interface was updated and the program was now designed for

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* The menu has been rearranged, following a study carried out by Microsoft. * The program ran in a window, ranging in size from

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pixels to 1024x768 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

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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

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(.rtf) files and

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s (.txt). * Nearly a dozen of themes based on

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and

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s are included to customize the program's

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. The demo only includes the

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theme.

Removed features

* Imaginopolis * Support for

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( .doc) files. * The McZee character, although he makes a

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as a

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and in the

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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.

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

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Removed features

Viewer

See also

References

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