Will AppleWorks (and previous AppleWorks documents) work with Leopard???

Yes Appleworks seems to be working fine in Leopard. I used it yesterday to Open some old documents which I then transferred to Pages. It was able to open pre Ver 6 documents and save them as version 6 docs.

Hi Christopher Bucholz;

I upgraded both my MacBook Pro and my PowerMac Quad. On the MBP I didn't notice any problems with AppleWorks at all. On my Quad I could not open AppleWorks with have a document displayed. If I attempted to open it directly from the program as if I were going to create a new document, it would abort. I finally traced the problem to bad links in the Recent Items folder. Once I removed them AppleWorks is work for me on both of my Macs.

Allan

My big problem after upgrading to Leopard was that Save As to other formats such as RTF, Text, Word, etc did not work. The only ones that even appeared in the format choices were the older Appleworks and Clarisworks and Word formats, and they didn't work. I rummaged around for my old 10.2 install disks and reinstalled Appleworks. Initially the RTF, and Text choices appeared, but when I tried to save to one of them, AW crashed. After restarting, the RTF and Text choices disappeared and trying to save to a Word format crashed AW. Same behavior with trying to save spreadsheets, drawings, databases to other formats. Bottom line is that you can only save to AW format.

OK - got Appleworks Save As working sort of normally after a second re-install and upgrade to v6.2.9. There is still a quirk regarding the file extension. If you don't enter a name before choosing a format, the default name will be "untitled..". Notice the two dots. If you enter a name first, then choose the format, you will get "Yourname." with a single dot. If you try to enter an extension in the naming box as you could under 10.4 and earlier, AW doesn't like it and will tell you the required extension is "'.". What you want to do is make sure the name in the box has no dots and no extension.

The file will now be saved just as it was when running AW under 10.4. It will be in the proper format, except that there will be no extension to the file name. The default application to open it will be AppleWorks. If you want it to open with a different application you can add the appropriate extension and/or choose a different default application by doing a Get Info on the file and making the changes there.

I cannot open Appleworks since I installed Leopard. I can, however, launch the application by lauching an Aplleworks file.

I can open AW and AW files, the only annoyance is no mouse-based scrolling in the AW document file <grrr>

John

I had the same problem of AW not working at all - then I deleted the preferences file, and it worked first time.