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Mar 8, 2014 3:48 PM in response to Retired in the Rockiesby Niel,1. TextEdit.
2. In Pages 4.3 or earlier.
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by Roger Wilmut1,★HelpfulMar 8, 2014 11:55 PM in response to Retired in the Rockies
Roger Wilmut1
Mar 8, 2014 11:55 PM
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iTunesAppleWorks 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.
Opening each document in AW and saving it in Rich Text format is the simplest solution but if you have a vary large number this is obviously going to be time consuming.
Once you have upgraded, TextEdit in Rich Text format is quite a capable text editor; there are one or two freer or cheap programs which use it as a basis for a version with more facilities.
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Mar 12, 2014 6:20 AM in response to Retired in the Rockiesby Joe Mon,★HelpfulHello everyone,
the free solution to open many old archives it's http://www.libreoffice.org
Enjoy it!