Apple says I can open any Appleworks v6 word doc in Pages, but I can't!

Are you talking about one AW document or several that will not open in Pages?

Are you sure it is a word processing document/s?

I am not sure but I think Pages '06 should be able to open AW wp documents. Maybe you'll get an answer to that if you do a search in the forum for AppleWorks.

All versions of the iWork applications - Keynote, Pages & Numbers - can only open AppleWorks 6 presentation, word processing & spreadsheet documents, respectively. They will not open any other type of AppleWorks 6 files or any AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks files.

Flyboy74 wrote:

Thanks Peggy. That is what Apple says too. So I am confused. I think I am using Appleworks v6 ("About Appleworks" says v 6.2.9) and the Pages won't open. Yet, you and Apple say it should. Is there some way to ascertain if I have the wrong version of Appleworks? I appreciate your clarifying if you can. Thanks!

Your version of AppleWorks is the latest, but you cannot open all AppleWorks files in Pages. Pages can only open AppleWorks 6 word processing documents. Numbers can open AppleWorks 6 spreadsheets & Keynote can open AppleWorks 6 presentations. I think the files you are trying to open are not one of these. Why don't you e-mail one or two of these files to me & I will let you know exactly what they are & what you can use to open them. You will find my e-mail address in the bio\graphy section of my profile.

Do the AppleWorks documents have the .cwk extension?

Peggy,

You have said seveal times that Pages, Numbers, and Keynote will open only Appleworks - word, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. I am fully aware of this, nothing needs to said about that fact again. I do have the same situation that "Flyboy74" is talking about. I can open AW 6.2.9 documents using the iWorks applications on my iMac that is running on Mountain Lion, no problem, HOWEVER, just as "Flyboy" has stated, I am not able to get the iWork applications to open the exact AW 6 documents on my Macbook running with Snow Leopard. Nor can I get the iWorks application to open newly created AW 6 work processing and spreadsheet documents.

The Snow Leopard on the Macbook has been reinstalled, also has the AW 6, and the iWorks 9, and all updates have been done. Disc utilities has examined and repaired all permissions.

To clarify again: all AW documents are version 6, iWorks apps are version '09, all software is up to date.

Also Peggy, you have hepled me before with advice on openeing and saving older ClarisWorks and earlier versions of Appleworks documents. Thank you very much for that advice.

Are you able to shed any lighton the iWorks situation.

Thank you in advance.

Doug Fritz

My last reply in this thread was more than four months ago & I have a hard time remembering what I did four hours or four days ago. But I don't see that you have done what I said in that last post. Just today I was converting a file for someone & the file did not have the .cwk extension. Even AppleWorks 6 in Snow Leopard wouldn't recognize it until I added the extension.

And I have received files many times that the sender insists are AppleWorks 6 files & they are not.

Thank you Peggy, but my posting earlier today was my first for this subject.

You asked some else to send you a document.

And to clarify, all of my documenrs do have the .cwk suffix.

I do believe that I have a software issue with the MacBook, since everything works fine on the iMac.

I also have another avenue for this problem and if it solves the problem, I will post about right here.

By the way, I still have emails from you from 3 or 4 years ago when you helped me with ClarisWorks conversions.

You may still have my email, and if so, I do not mind being contacted about this matter.

Doug

Hi Peggy et al.

First off happy holidays. I found I was using the wrong version of IWork's ! 06 does not have open capability but '09 does. So if anyone is having a similar issues opening AppleWorks 6 documents maybe this will help.

Merry Christmas!

Flyboy74

Odd, I've been able to open AppleWorks 6 word processing documents in Pages since I first started using Pages in iWork '05. It might have more to do with the Mac & the OS than Pages. I just tried opening an AppleWorks 6 word processing file in Pages 2/iWork '06 on my Mac mini running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 & it would not open. I just got a generic "couldn't open' error. I then tried this same file in Pages 1.0.2/iWork '05 & Pages 2 on my G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4.11 & it opened without problems in both.

Peggy,

Do you have Rosetta installed with your Snow Leopard? My current iMac came with Leopard and Rosetta (which I'm still using, along with Pages '08) and I have a dim (very dim) recollection of having to install Rosetta when upgrading to Snow Leopard. I could be wrong on this.

Walt

Peggy,

You got the same generic message that I was receiving.

After I searched and found the iWork 9.1 update for Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and 10.6.8, my iWork apps are working.

The new versions are now Keynote version 5.1, Numbers 2.1, and Pages 4.1

The web site for the iWord 9.1 update is:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1097

Hope this helps. Let me know.

Doug Fritz