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Jul 23, 2013 9:16 AM in response to SteveHby Roger Wilmut1,★HelpfulOpenOffice cannot open AW files - you are likely to get a lot of garbage which is the format coding. Word Processing documents can be opened directly only in Pages (AppleWorks 6 only), though Panergy Software's docXConverter v3.2 ($19.95) can convert Appleworks 5 and 6 Word Processing documents to RTF (though it has been reported that it can only handle documents which contain only text, not those which include images or frames). Pages would be the sensible option.
You should be thinking now about how to move away from AppleWorks as Snow Leopard is the last system which will run it - if you computer went phut and you had to buy a Mountain Lion one you would only be able to run AW in emulation. Be aware that the options for opening AW documents are limited and nothing else can open the database files.
This article examines the situation in detail:
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Jul 23, 2013 12:16 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by SteveH,Thank you so much for your reply and the link. Will Openoffice work with either Lion or M. Lion?
I'm thinking of copy & pasting my Appleworks files into Openoffice, so that if we do need to switch to one of them we will still have our files.
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Jul 23, 2013 12:20 PM in response to SteveHby Roger Wilmut1,You can get info and a download at http://openoffice.org
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Jul 23, 2013 12:22 PM in response to SteveHby Barry,"Will Openoffice work with either Lion or M. Lion?"
Yes. As will the other two open source applications based on it—LibreOffice and NeoOffice.
Neo requires recent donation for the current version; OOo and Libre request donations as well.
Available from libreoffice.org and neooffice.org respectively.
Regards
Barry
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Jul 23, 2013 12:31 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by SteveH,We actuall already have Openoffice 3.4.1 installed and do occasionally use it.
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Jul 23, 2013 12:34 PM in response to Barryby SteveH,OK, thanks much for the additional info.
As long as we know that OO will work with L & ML and we can copy & past our AW files into OO and
be able to use those files with L or ML - I think we are OK.
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Jul 23, 2013 12:35 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by MlchaelLAX,Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
... as Snow Leopard is the last system which will run it - if you computer went phut and you had to buy a Mountain Lion one you would only be able to run AW in emulation.
Here is the information on running Appleworks in virtualization:
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
FWIW: Appleworks, written as a PowerPC app, requires Rosetta to run in an Intel Mac world.
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Jul 25, 2013 2:18 AM in response to SteveHby fosnola,Hello,
in fact, LibreOffice 4.1 will include a new filter for AppleWorks and ClarisWorks text documents (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#Support_for_legacy_Mac_word -processing_documents ), clearly not perfect :-~ but it may be ok for simple documents...
If you have an intel mac, you can load a pre-release version of LibreOffice 4.1 in http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ and if you find some bugs, you can send it to me, I will try to correct them...
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Jul 25, 2013 3:40 AM in response to fosnolaby fosnola,Oops sorry: it is useless to download the actual prelease version LibreOffice 4.1 RC4 ; ie. previously I have the RC1 and the new filter was called, but I just download the LibreOffice 4.1 RC4 version and this seems no longer true on my computer :-~
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Jul 25, 2013 8:51 AM in response to fosnolaby SteveH,We have actually already copy & pasted most of our files from AW into OO.
But, there is somthing a little strange - we are getting to differant icons for OO one looks like a page with
a corner folded and ODT at the bottom, the other icon is the same OO icon for Text. Not sure why there is a differance.
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Jul 25, 2013 8:54 AM in response to MlchaelLAXby SteveH,MlchaelLAX - Thank you for your info, It sure does make us decide to switch over to OO and leave AW behind.
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Jul 25, 2013 11:54 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1by SteveH,After realizing how many more AW files we still have - I took a look at Page, when I went to download it
I got a screen saying that it only works on 10.7 and above. So, I'm not able to download it for 10.6.8.
It might have made things much less time consuming to be able to just change all our AW files over to
Pages files - but, oh well. Looks like copy/cutting & pasting from AW into OO is the way to go.
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Jul 25, 2013 12:19 PM in response to SteveHby Roger Wilmut1,You may be able to get the iWork '09 box from Amazon or other retailers - this version will work with Snow Leopard.
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Jul 25, 2013 12:27 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by SteveH,How do I know if it's the right version? Will it also work with L or ML?
