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May 4, 2014 8:04 PM in response to CSR1752by Peggy,I have a few old documents in Appleworks and OS6
This sentence isn't very clear. I don't know what you mean by OS6. What version of AppleWorks last saved these documents? You can open AppleWorks 6 word processing, spreadsheets & presentations in Pages, Numbers & Keynote respectively using iWork '09 or earlier. The new (& not so great) versions of iWork released last October cannot open AppleWorks files. You cannot open any other type (draw, paint or database) of AppleWorks 6 documents with any iWork application nor can you open AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks documents.
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May 5, 2014 12:05 AM in response to CSR1752by Roger Wilmut1,- AppleWorks 6 Word Processing documents can be opened directly in Pages 4 (AppleWorks 6 only) but this is no longer available from Apple - the new Pages 5 (Mavericks required) does not open AppleWorks documents. (The older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.) 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.
- AppleWorks 6 Draw Documents can be opened directly only in EazyDraw (the more expensive version from their website, not the cheaper one from the Mac App Store, and you will need v4.0 'Retro' not the most recent version) or Intaglio (though this appears not to be able to handle very complex drawings). LibreOffice will open simple Draw documents but I found it very unreliable with complex ones.
- Spreadsheets can be opened directly only in the older versions of Numbers - the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available from Apple. (Again, the older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.)
- Presentations can be opened directly only in the older versions Keynote; again, the new version for Mavericks will not do this. The old version is no longer available from Apple. (The older version is contained in the iWork '09 box set which may still be available from Amazon and other independent retailers.)
To use other programs, or open Database documents at all, you must have exported from AppleWorks first. You cannot run Appleworks in Lion or later. If you have upgraded to Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks and have AppleWorks documents you cannot open, then you should be able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard disk and start from that (provided that the Mac did not come with anything higher than Snow Leopard originally installed); and success has been reported in running Snow Leopard Server under emulation in Parallels - the method is described here: Snow Leopard Server is (as far as I know) still available in the Apple Store (by telephone) at a reduced price and is preferable to using ordinary Snow Leopard which is quite tricky. I haven't tried this myself: use at your own discretion. You can then run AppleWorks as an emergency measure.
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May 13, 2014 5:42 AM in response to CSR1752by a brody,If your Mac release date predates Lion's July 20, 2011 release date, you can always install 10.6 on a USB Flash drive to install AppleWorks as well, or put it on a separate partition. For instance, since the MacBook Pro was not updated until October 2011, older MacBook Pros can use their prebundled 10.6 installer discs to install 10.6 on a USB Flash drive to be able to use an older Appleworks installation.