Candy Pantano
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Q: Convert Appleworks to Lion?

I am purchasing a new Macbook Pro tomorrow. I understand Appleworks does not work on Lion? I have over 1000 documents in Appleworks. Any quick way to convert them before I purchase my new Macbook Pro?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 17, 2011 5:13 PM

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Q: Convert Appleworks to Lion?

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  • by Barry,

    Barry Barry Dec 17, 2011 7:09 PM in response to Candy Pantano
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    Dec 17, 2011 7:09 PM in response to Candy Pantano

    Hi Candy,

     

    Short answer: No.

     

    The documents need to be converted individually.

     

    AppleWorks 6 WP, SS and PR documents are openable in Paages, Numbers and Keynote respectively.

    AppleWorks DR (and PT?) documents can be opened in EazyDraw, but not in the most inexpensive version of that application.

    AppleWorks DB documents can be opened ONLY by AppleWorks. They can be Exported from AppleWorks as Text documents (tab delimited text files), and opened from that file into most DB or spreadsheet applications. Only the data will be exported. Calculation fields will export the most recent result of the calculation. Formatting will be stripped from the data.

     

    Files created by earlier versions of AppleWorks and ClarisWorks can be opened by more recent versions of AppleWorks. see above for the step after that.

     

    For files for which you no longer need to have an editable copy, the easiest route is probably to convert the file to PDF format via the Print dialogue. This will give you a single view of the document, likely with the ability to copy its text if needed (test this on the individual documents).

     

    For a more detailed discussion of Abandoning AppleWorks, click the link to Roger Wilmut's article of that name.

     

    Regards,

    Barry