I have a lot of old and important docs that I can't access. Many are in the .cwk format.
Some others have a black icon with 3 white dots top left.
Is there a way for me to access them and convert the contents to pages or copy the content and paste onto a pages doc?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), I'm a novice
Try using LibreOffice. If that doesn't work, you need to find a computer which is running an older version of iWork, or one which has Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier(including running Mac OS X Server in emulation) and AppleWorks installed.
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All versions of ClarisWorks & AppleWorks share the .cwk extension.
If you have iWork '09 you can open AppleWorks 6 word processing, spreadsheets & presentations in Pages, Numbers & Keynote respectively. 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.
If the files are AppleWorks/ClarisWorks 5 or earlier, do as Niel suggested, & use LibreOffice. It can open many, but not all, types of AppleWorks & ClarisWorks documents.
How to convert old .cwk docs to pages
