I just upgraded, no more Appleworks to be found .

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I just upgraded, no more Appleworks to be found .

Hi , I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place , and fyi I'm only a couple of steps up from being computer illiterate . I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion to Maverick , no more Appleworks to be found . I downloaded Pages , and it didn't open my correspondence I produced with Appleworks . I downloaded Libre Office , it opened the documents , but they were all scrambled . Please tell me where to go from here .

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Posted on Aug 2, 2014 11:28 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 2, 2014 11:57 AM in response to ursulafromsouris

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6456775

Hi Ursula...
Apple Works is no longer supported. If you read the thread on the subject which I started a while back you may find some help.

Good luck.

....goldie

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Answer 2

Aug 2, 2014 3:07 PM in response to ursulafromsouris

Not only has AppleWorks not been supported nor sold for some years now, it will not run at all on Mavericks (which cannot run any PPC programs).

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'sdocXConverter 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.
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.)
Nothing will open AppleWorks databases.

One option is to get hold of an old PPC machine which can run it and export your data. More information on alternative programs here:

http://wilmut.uk/aw

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