joyalive
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Q: appleworks for macbook pro 10.8.6

how can I find apple works for my mac book pro to download.  osx 10.6.8  then I can use 6.2  appleworks to upgrade.  Currently I have no appleworks on my computer. 

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 19, 2014 7:25 PM

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Q: appleworks for macbook pro 10.8.6

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  • by Allan Jones,

    Allan Jones Allan Jones Sep 19, 2014 9:51 PM in response to joyalive
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    Sep 19, 2014 9:51 PM in response to joyalive

    No version of Appleworks can run under OS 10.7 or higher. The last OS that still supported AppleWorks was 10.6.8, and it used software emulation to run pre-Intel apps like Appleworks.

     

    LibreOffice is a modern productivity suite that duplicates most of the functions of Appleworks and is free. You cannot say the same for iWork, the current product that Apple placed in AppleWorks' old slot. iWork has word processing (Pages) ; Spreadsheets (Numbers) and presentation (KeyNote). LibreOffice has those plus Draw and database functions.

     

    Best of all, LibreOffice is open-source and I believe it opens AppleWorks files.You can find information here:

     

    http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/

     

    EDIT: Sorry, you typed "10.8.6" for an OS in the title and I failed to noticed you said 10.6.8 in other places. So you can run AW6 on that computer if you can find it. I still think your best action is to use LibreOffice that still runs under 10.6.8. Otherwise, you wil be looking to buy used software like this on Amazon:

     

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10?url=search-alias%3Dsoftware&field-ke ywords=appleworks+6&sprefix=appleworks%2Csoftware%2C247

     

    Once you get a copy of AppleWorks 6, you can update it to the last version 6.2.9 by downloading this Apple updater file:

     

    AppleWorks 6.2.9 for Mac

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Sep 19, 2014 11:09 PM in response to joyalive
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    Sep 19, 2014 11:09 PM in response to joyalive

    If you have not been using AppleWorks up to now I would seriously advice not starting at this point - as Allan says you cannot run it on any later system than 10.6.8 except under emulation in for example Parallels. If you are using it I would advise making plans to move away from it, particularly considering that if you have any database files nothing else whatever will open them.

     

    This article examines the situation in some detail:

     

    http://wilmut.uk/aw