Richard Riegner

Q: Can iWorks Open AppleWorks Documents?

Can iWorks open an AppleWorks word processing document?

 

Can iWorks open an AppleWorks database?  Does it import it into an iWorks spreadsheet?

 

I want to open my AppleWorks-based mail merge documents without having to convert them to Microsoft Office.

 

 

Thanks.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jul 6, 2011 10:47 AM

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  • by Peggy,Helpful

    Peggy Peggy Jul 6, 2011 3:26 PM in response to Richard Riegner
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    Jul 6, 2011 3:26 PM in response to Richard Riegner

    The iWork (no 's') applications - Keynote, Pages & Numbers - can only open AppleWorks 6 presentation, word processing & spreadsheet documents, respectively. They will not open any other type of AppleWorks 6 files or any AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks files.

     

    The third-party application, EazyDraw, can open AppleWorks draw documents. If you still have access to AppleWorks you can copy the contents of draw documents, paste them into an AppleWorks word processing document in object mode (click the arrow in the tool panel), save the WP document & then open it in Pages. You can copy & paste from AppleWorks to Pages but you would have to do it object by object or it will be one big uneditable object.

     

    There is nothing other than AppleWorks that can open paint or database documents. Database data can be copied & pasted into an AppleWorks spreadsheet, saved & opened in Numbers or saved as ASCII/plain text & opened in most any spreadsheet, database or word processing program. Pages can merge from an Numbers spreadsheet or AddressBook. Since copying & pasting from database to spreadsheet won't copy & paste the column titles, you will need to enter them manually & then define that row as a header row in Numbers in order to use it for merging with Pages.

     

    Paint documents can be saved as one of many different formats to be opened in most image editing programs. I recommend using PICT for best results.

     

  • by Richard Riegner,

    Richard Riegner Richard Riegner Jul 6, 2011 4:01 PM in response to Peggy
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    Jul 6, 2011 4:01 PM in response to Peggy

    Thanks for the info.

  • by christopher rigby1,

    christopher rigby1 christopher rigby1 Jul 15, 2011 12:21 PM in response to Richard Riegner
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    Jul 15, 2011 12:21 PM in response to Richard Riegner

    I've tried to Lion-proof my future by converting AW documents as follows :

     

    WP - Save As RTF (and Word, though obviously that's not for you)

    DR -  Save As any image file, e.g. JPEG, though there is no way to preserve individual graphics objects*

    PT -  similar

    DB -  (sorry, as a FMP user for 17 years I don't know the answer to this.)

    SS -  Save As an eXcel file either Mac or Win, or as an ASCII text file

     

    * if it's a particular important document, and you have a layer-based image editor such as Photoshop, each graphic object can be copied and pasted as a separate layer, though each will have to be re-positioned. It would REALLY have to be worth doing!

  • by Joe Mon,

    Joe Mon Joe Mon Mar 12, 2014 6:22 AM in response to Richard Riegner
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    Mar 12, 2014 6:22 AM in response to Richard Riegner

    Hello everyone,

     

    the free solution to open many old archives it's http://www.libreoffice.org

     

    Enjoy it!