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by Roger Wilmut1,★HelpfulMar 8, 2014 1:47 PM in response to Retired in the Rockies
Roger Wilmut1
Mar 8, 2014 1:47 PM
in response to Retired in the Rockies
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iTunesIf you mean saving Word Processing documents as a conversion to Rich Text format, yes. There are very limited options for opening the original files:
- Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available - the newPages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. 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). The latest version of the free LibreOffice has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images.
- 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). LibreOffice will open simple Draw documents but I found it very unreliable with complex ones.
- Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in the older versions of Numbers - the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available.
- Presentations can be opened directly only in the older versions Keynote; again, the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available.
- Nothing will open Database documents. The only way to retrieve them is to be able to save them in AppleWorks in ASCII format (plain text) and open them in a database program such as FileMaker Pro or in a spreadsheet application. Of course you will lose all the formatting, and calculation fields will show only the result, not the formula.
This article examines migration from AppleWorks to later operating systems in some detail: