Dorothea1905
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Q: AW 6.0.3  to AW 6.2.7 macros, custom buttons, dictionary, & online help files

Hello,

 

I have just "upgraded" from an iMac G3 "bondi" purchased ini December 2000 to an iMac PowerPC G4 "sunflower" that was used ca. 2002-2007. I have AppleWorks 6.0.2 on the G3 and AppleWorks 6.2.7 on the G4.

 

I have migrated all of my documents over ... and so far everything is great. A couple of questions.

 

  1. Can I bring over two custom buttons: one to make bullets the other to number paragraphs that I created on the G3 iMac? If not, how do I recreate them? (I found an article that says you can't bring buttons from older versions of AW into AW6, but this is moving within iterations of AW6.
  2. I had set up function keys to change the font color of the selected text: F1-black, F2-blue, F3-red. I also inadvertantly set up the same actions for command-1, command-2, and command-3. Is there any way to bring this over? Can I recreate on the G4?

Both were pretty straight-forward to set up, with macros, but I don't see any macro editor in AW 6.2.7.

 

I haven't tried to move over my dictionary. Is that relaltively straightforward?

 

Some of the "help" files are online. How can I access them?

 

Can I run 6.0.3 and 6.2.7 on the G4? If yes, what's to know?

 

I imaging I'm not the first person to pose these questions... .so I would appreciate any pointers to exisiting information.

 

-Dottie

iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x), OS 9.2.2

Posted on Apr 12, 2013 6:08 PM

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Q: AW 6.0.3  to AW 6.2.7 macros, custom buttons, dictionary, & online help files

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Apr 13, 2013 12:10 AM in response to Dorothea1905
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    Apr 13, 2013 12:10 AM in response to Dorothea1905

    You should update on your G4 to version 6.2.9:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL617

     

    Your existing AW installation must keep the application in the AppleWorks folder together with a number of support folders: and you need the AppleWorks User Data folder and AppleWorks Button Bars files in your Documents folder - you can copy these from the older installation.

     

    You will not be able to run macros: they don't work under OSX as the support facilities for them don't exist (Publish and Subscribe doesn't work either). There is no point in trying to run 6.0.2 as they won't work there.

     

    However you may be able to install AW in the Classic environment: I don't know whether they will work there.

     

    Apart from the macros 6.2.9 should work perfectly well. However you need to be aware that the next time you buy a Mac, AppleWorks will not run at all on it (other than by using emulators of one sort or another to run it under Snow Leopard, which is the highest system it will run under).

  • by Dorothea1905,

    Dorothea1905 Dorothea1905 Apr 13, 2013 6:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Apr 13, 2013 6:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Hi Roger,

     

    Thanks for the suggestion to uupgrade AW to 6.2.9.

     

    I think I will try installing 6.0.3 on the G4. I will let you know.

     

    I already have a newer Mac (MacBook with Tiger) since about 2007, and Pages is pretty good at reading my AW word-processing documents. The reason I am keeping with AppleWorks is to finish a 300-page report with drawings, footnotes, tables, etc. It is in the final stages (begun in 2004). It would just be handy to have everything as it has been. (The G3's hard drive is too fragile to rely on right now which is why I made the switch.)

     

    I found instructions for moving the dictionary user files, but will hold off and see if I can put them with AW 6.0.3 on the G4 since so many of the new words are specific to the big report.

     

    -Dottie

  • by Dorothea1905,

    Dorothea1905 Dorothea1905 Apr 15, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Dorothea1905
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    Apr 15, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Dorothea1905

    Thank you, Roger.

     

    I successfully installed AW 6.0.3 in Applications (OS 9) on my G4 iMac (with other OS 9 applications). (Sorry for the confusion: my G3 iMac was running 6.0.3 not 6.0.2.)

    • I was able to activate my macros.
    • Wasn't able to figure out how to get my user buttons that went with two of my five macros, so I just made new buttons (for bullets and numbering as on the toolbar of the window I'm composing this in!).
    • Had some trouble with the dictionary because not knowing what file extension to add to my User Dictionary. I successfully imported a text file I had exported from my G3 iMac and still ran into file recognition issues until I added .TXT and then the import worked perfectly. I tested it out on my big report. Success.

     

    Enough for one day. I did download AW 6.2.9 so as to upgrade the OS X version of AW (6.2.7) at a later time. I don't plan to use 6.2.7 anyway. It's been three weeks making this transition. Finally back to work.

     

    One question remains:  the "Help" for both 6.0.3 and 6.2.7 has some links to files accessible online. Does Apple still make those available?

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Apr 15, 2013 8:26 AM in response to Dorothea1905
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    Apr 15, 2013 8:26 AM in response to Dorothea1905

    6.2.9 has Help files but no links to anything online. However the 'Starting Points' Web tab has three documents containing various links, some of which work, some don't, and some have changed somewhat. Apple's own online templates are no longer available though there are some from a user group.

  • by Dorothea1905,

    Dorothea1905 Dorothea1905 Apr 17, 2013 11:21 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Apr 17, 2013 11:21 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thanks for this. 6.2.7 apparently has the same ... none worked. No big deal. Thanks again!

    -Dottie