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Q: How can I change 4000 Appleworks 6 documents to Pages?

How can I change 4000 Appleworks 6 documents to Pages? I am told that if Iupdate my operating system,  I will not being able to open Appleworks 6. I don't want to make the changes one at a time for obvious reasons.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 16, 2013 5:36 PM

by Roger Wilmut1,Solvedanswer
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Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. Panergy Software's docXConverter v3.2 ($19.95) can convert Appleworks 5 and 6 Word Processing documents to RTF (though it has been reported that it can only handle documents which contain only text, not those which include images or frames). The latest version of the free LibreOffice has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images.

 

10.6.8 is already pretty well obsolete, but it continues to work well enough. However the next time you buy a new Mac you will have to have the then current operating system, which won't run AppleWorks, so you need to be thinking ahead about how to handle this.

 

Success has been reported in running Snow Leopard under emulation in Parallels - the method is described here: it seems complex; however Snow Leopard Server is available in the Apple Store (by telephone) at a reduced price (at the time of writing) and this makes the process a lot easier. I haven't tried either method: use at your own discretion. You can then run AppleWorks as an emergency measure.

 

You may find this article helpful:

 

http://rfwilmut.net/aw

Posted on Dec 16, 2013 11:55 PM

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  • by PeterBreis0807,Helpful

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Dec 16, 2013 10:04 PM in response to fbelcast
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    Dec 16, 2013 10:04 PM in response to fbelcast

    Exactly what are the files?

     

    If they are only Word Processing files that need to be exported to txt, doc or pdf you should look for an AppleScript or Automator workflow to do this for you.

     

    If the files are a mix of WP, SpreadSheet, Drawing, Database it gets difficult. PDF may be your only option.

     

    Perhaps you camn look at a Print droplet from Automator that will simply print to pdf anything you drop on it to a nominated folder.

     

    Frankly given this experience I think you are extremely brave trying to move to Pages 5.

     

    The chain of redundancies from before AppleWorks, then to Pages '08/'09 and now to Pages 5 is just putting all your eggs in another Apple basket that Apple will withdraw from you without notice and without an upgrade path all over again.

     

    Peter

  • by fbelcast,Helpful

    fbelcast fbelcast Dec 16, 2013 10:20 PM in response to PeterBreis0807
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    Dec 16, 2013 10:20 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

    My Appleworks 6 files are all word processing files. Your remarks have made me consider updating.  But how long will it be before my operating system becomes obsolete and I will be forced to update (or will I?)? Thank you for your help.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,Solvedanswer

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Dec 16, 2013 11:55 PM in response to fbelcast
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    Dec 16, 2013 11:55 PM in response to fbelcast

    Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. Panergy Software's docXConverter v3.2 ($19.95) can convert Appleworks 5 and 6 Word Processing documents to RTF (though it has been reported that it can only handle documents which contain only text, not those which include images or frames). The latest version of the free LibreOffice has announced that it can open AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents and an ability to open ClarisWorks documents has been reported: it does appear to be able to handle at least some embedded images.

     

    10.6.8 is already pretty well obsolete, but it continues to work well enough. However the next time you buy a new Mac you will have to have the then current operating system, which won't run AppleWorks, so you need to be thinking ahead about how to handle this.

     

    Success has been reported in running Snow Leopard under emulation in Parallels - the method is described here: it seems complex; however Snow Leopard Server is available in the Apple Store (by telephone) at a reduced price (at the time of writing) and this makes the process a lot easier. I haven't tried either method: use at your own discretion. You can then run AppleWorks as an emergency measure.

     

    You may find this article helpful:

     

    http://rfwilmut.net/aw

  • by fruhulda,

    fruhulda fruhulda Dec 17, 2013 10:07 AM in response to fbelcast
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    Dec 17, 2013 10:07 AM in response to fbelcast

    Hi!

    I will go on using Snow Leopard until something better comes along. So far it hasn't.

    Pages 09 can open AW6 wp documents. So can LibreOffice which is free.

  • by fbelcast,

    fbelcast fbelcast Dec 17, 2013 5:44 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Dec 17, 2013 5:44 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thank you for the information.  It looks like I will have to update and if I need an Appleworks 6 file, I can drag it onto TextWrangler without the formatting.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Dec 17, 2013 11:59 PM in response to fbelcast
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    Dec 17, 2013 11:59 PM in response to fbelcast

    Try it first. You will presumably get all the formatting codes displayed around the actual text content. This can include a lot of spurious page breaks.

  • by fruhulda,

    fruhulda fruhulda Dec 18, 2013 9:44 PM in response to fbelcast
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    Dec 18, 2013 9:44 PM in response to fbelcast

    LibreOffice is free and you can use it in Snow Leopard.