Q: Appleworks files converted to Openoffice?

"How do I know if it's the right version?  Will it also work with L or ML?"

Apple has gone through three stages (at least) in the way is sold iWork. Early versions were available in the boxed retail version, or bundled as demo/trial versions with some Mac models. The 30 day Trial version was also available as a download from the Apple site at one time.

With the release of Mountain Lion, current versions of the iWork applications became available only through the Mac App store.

The retail box version, while no longer available through the Apple Store, can be had from several resellers. What's on disk is not the current version, but one that will run on Snow Leopard (and likely on Leopard and possibly even on Tiger).

That version may require updates to the most recent Snow Leopard compatible version, and will require updates to run on Lion or Mountain Lion.

Thw retail box version came in two packages—Single User, and Family—the first licenced for a single user on a single machine, the second for installation on up to five machines owned by members of the same family, living under the same roof.

Regards,

Barry

'iWork '09 [ OLD VERSION]' is available in Amazon in both the UK and USA and that's what you want. (Old Version means not the one in the App Store.)

'iWork 09' is the version number. The box they show is the same as the one I have.

roaringapps.com reports it as compatible with both L and ML but of course we don't know whether they are referring to the box or the App Store version (though as those are actually sold individually it probably is the box). You could ask in the Pages forum - I'm sure there will be plenty of people there who have been running it on later systems and can advise.

LibreOffice is the way to go... swithed and never looked back.

Same source code as OpenOffice but it works 10x better. They also have localization in many languages which is very nice, very well done.

Hi Steve,

Numbers '09 is curently running under ML on my MBPro, as is Pages '09. Keyonote '09 probably runs well to, but I don't recall having used in on this machine. Several people posting in the Numbers for Mac community have both Numbers '09 and Numbers 3 installed and running under Mavericks without issue. Ditto for Pages.

The versions in the box set will not be the most recent versions of the three applications, so after installation and before launching any of them, use Software Update to check for updates. The  updates will take the three applications to Numbers 2.3, Pages 4.3 and Keynote 5.3, the most recent (and likely last) version of the iWork '09 applications. Under OS X versions prior to ML, the update may be to an earlier version (same whole number parts, but lower decimal part).

Regards,

Barry

To set the default application for a certain type of file. Right click or ctrl click on any file of that type and click Get Info. A smaller window wil open. There is a drop down called Open with: expand that. Select the app you want in the first list and then click Apply to all.

Done, now every file of that type will open with the particular application of your choice.

All,

I remember the days I used ClarisWorks, 3.0 and 4.0 (never really used the Apple branted version) and it was my first love of a productivity suite. IMO 4.0 was the best, 3 was the second.

I used ClarisWorks in school and at home with a hand-me-down Color Classic, and a hand me down PowerBook 190 with an LC-like CPU.

My tastes changed when I needed to do more business like work and went to the MS Office platform for the PC, it was never the same for the Mac after 1998.

But now since MS Office on any platform where you can't "do real work with a real Office" since 2007 for the PC, I'm going to use other platforms. been using iWork off and on just for that classic Mac Office suite even if iWork is not remotely close to Apple/ClarisWorks.

Finding out that LibreOffice supports old formats for Apple/ClarisWorks continues to make me lean towards that over OOO since its now in another organizations hands since Oracle bought Sun Micro.

I still have Claris files and I still have my Classic Macs and a printer if I so needed to get to them.

Sidenote, it is possible to run Snow Leopoard client Mac OS without the need of spending $ (or even worse your system's resources) to run AppleWorks. I suggest to look on other websites and its simple to do if you know what virtualization software to use and how to implement because I have in the past been able to do this with no problems. It should be fine for me to suggst this since this suggestion runs on an Apple labeled machine.