joanfromdc
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Q: I am resurrecting my old iMacG5 for my grandson. Appleworks has question mark in dock and does not load from bundled software on original installation discs. Can anyone help?

I am resurrecting my old iMacG5 for my grandson. Appleworks has question mark in dock and does not load from bundled software on original installation discs. Can anyone help?

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 5:46 PM

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jan 24, 2012 10:19 AM in response to joanfromdc
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    Jan 24, 2012 10:19 AM in response to joanfromdc

    I'm sorry no-one has answered you yet - I'm afraid I don't know the answer to the question: but I wanted to put into your mind that starting up with AppleWorks at this stage isn't a good idea. The program was 'end-of-lifed' years ago, it won't run on Lion, and some of the document types created in it - Databases in particular - cannot be opened at all by any other program whatever. Word Processing documents can be opened in Pages, and Spreadsheets in Numbers (with some reservations in both cases), but building up a collection of AppleWorks documents at this stage is going to lead to problems later on.

     

    It's difficult to know what to recommend for a PowerPC machine that would still be compatible with modern ones. An older version of Microsoft Office, perhaps, if you can find one which will run on PPC; but most of the modern Word Processors are Intel only. This is something you would need to investigate.

  • by fruhulda,

    fruhulda fruhulda Jan 24, 2012 11:12 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jan 24, 2012 11:12 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    iWork do work on PowerPc. I have iWork '09 on a G4!

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Jan 24, 2012 12:14 PM in response to fruhulda
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    Jan 24, 2012 12:14 PM in response to fruhulda

    Thanks for that, Fruhulda. Actually so have I - I'd forgotten (I don't use it now there now) - slow, but workable. Frankly this would be a much more sensible bet at this stage than AppleWorks.

  • by Michael Wasley,

    Michael Wasley Michael Wasley Jan 24, 2012 12:21 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jan 24, 2012 12:21 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

    It's difficult to know what to recommend for a PowerPC machine that would still be compatible with modern ones. An older version of Microsoft Office, perhaps, if you can find one which will run on PPC; but most of the modern Word Processors are Intel only. This is something you would need to investigate.

    At the free end of the market Bean offers a good lightweight WP that works on PPC/Intel, whilst LibreOffice covers the heavyweight stuff.

  • by joanfromdc,

    joanfromdc joanfromdc Jan 25, 2012 10:41 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Jan 25, 2012 10:41 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thank you for your reply (from my home town!), although I was not asking for recommendations for another program; I already use iWork on my latest iMac. The Appleworks is just for a very young grandson aged nearly 6, who likes using the drawing and painting programs. His parents are Windows users, so I assume that he will go in that direction eventually, anyway. As it turns out, I have since managed to sort out the problem after referring to some of the archived articles on the Apple website