JayDee51

Q: Appleworks 6 to Pages?

I still have some old files in AppleWorks 6. I now use OSX 10.8.2 and Pages. I am unable to tranfer my old AppleWorks documents to pages. Also i have found that I cannot load in my old copy of AppleWorks 6.

 

Can anyone help me with a way to transfer my documents to Pages?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 16, 2013 11:30 PM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Feb 17, 2013 1:20 AM in response to JayDee51
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    Feb 17, 2013 1:20 AM in response to JayDee51

    AppleWorks cannot run in Mountain Lion, which does not provide Rosetta (necessary to run PPC programs).

     

    • Word Processing documents can be opened directly only in Pages (AppleWorks 6 only).
    • Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings).
    • Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in Numbers.
    • Presentations can be opened directly only in Keynote.
    • Nothing will open Paint or Database documents

     

    You should be able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard disk and start from that (provided that the Mac did not come with anything higher than Snow Leopard originally installed); and success has been reported in running Snow Leopard under emulation in Parallels - the method is described here: it seems complex and I haven't tried it: use at your own discretion. You can then run AppleWorks as an emergency measure.

     

    This article examines alternatives to AppleWorks in detail:

     

    http://rfwilmut.net/aw

  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX Feb 17, 2013 2:40 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Feb 17, 2013 2:40 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Roger: Will Appleworks 6 open Appleworks 5 files?  This question came up recently...

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Feb 17, 2013 2:52 PM in response to MlchaelLAX
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    Feb 17, 2013 2:52 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

    Yes: it opens them and prompts you to save them as AW 6 (at which point of course AW5 won't open them).

  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX Feb 18, 2013 10:38 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Feb 18, 2013 10:38 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thank you: I will let them know!

  • by pashi5,

    pashi5 pashi5 Feb 22, 2014 7:25 PM in response to JayDee51
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    Feb 22, 2014 7:25 PM in response to JayDee51

    Hi,

    I, too, have many Appleworks 6 files and have just made a discovery.  I plugged my portable back-up hard drive called "Lacie" into my old computer.  Then I opened an Appleworks 6 file and clicked "Save As" just as I would if I were saving the file in Appleworks.  However, on the "Save on Appleworks" frame, I clicked on "File Format" and then clicked on "RTF."  Then I clicked on the "Where" tab and made sure to save this new RTF file on "Lacie," my portable hard drive.  I then clicked on "Save." 

     

    The next thing I did was remove the portable hard drive from my old computer and plug it into my new Mac Pro.  I clicked on the "Lacie" icon, then clicked on the RTF file, and voila!  There was all my hard work!  The next step?  I opened a blank Pages document and copied and pasted the RTF file into it.  Last, I saved it.  I will have to make a few formatting adjustments, but I'm immensely relieved to have found a relatively simple solution.  I hope this helps!

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Feb 22, 2014 11:38 PM in response to pashi5
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    Feb 22, 2014 11:38 PM in response to pashi5

    Yes, that works perfectly well with text documents which have simple formatting. Of course if you have more complex formatting or embedded frames then that won't survive the process. The real problem arises for people who have got themselves into a situation where they can't run AppleWorks since the new version of Pages won't open AW files.