Kate Porter

Q: Need to turn Appleworks into Word

Hi, I know, I know. I should have used Word in the first place if I was doing it for publishing. But, like so many others, I didn't know until after the fact. Can anyone turn me on to a tutorial of some kind re this? Maybe Apple has one? Video or print would be great. Thanks so much for any input. Kate

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 4, 2014 11:43 AM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jun 4, 2014 12:05 PM in response to Kate Porter
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    Jun 4, 2014 12:05 PM in response to Kate Porter

    'Save as' and pick a suitable format from the 'File format' drop-down menu:

     

    aw.jpg

  • by Kate Porter,

    Kate Porter Kate Porter Jun 4, 2014 12:32 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jun 4, 2014 12:32 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thanks, Roger, but for some reason, my "Save As..." doesn't go beyond "Clarisworks for Kids".I've tried other settings, but the Word references just don't seem to be there. Any other ideas?

     

    Thanks Kate

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jun 4, 2014 1:18 PM in response to Kate Porter
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    Jun 4, 2014 1:18 PM in response to Kate Porter

    This means that you are missing the translators which would have enabled you to make these conversions. I rather doubt you will be able to get hold of them now. There are various programs which can open AW word processing documents, after which you can usually save them in a Woed-compatible format.

     

    Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available from Apple - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. (The older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.) 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.

     

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    http://rfwilmut.net/aw