I am currently operating in Snow Leopard but plan on upgrading to El Capitan. I currently use AppleWorks 6.2.4 to maintain a few databases and print mailing labels for an organization. For example, I track donations and send letters out to donors. I know that AppleWorks does not work in El Capitan. Is there a workaround or is there a program (relatively inexpensive preferably) that will allow me to maintain such databases and print mailing labels in El Capitan?
You may find these pages helpful:
http://rfwilmut.net/notes/aw/page5.html
http://rfwilmut.net/notes/aw/page6.html
Another alternative, though slightly messy, is to continue to run AW in Snow Leopard under emulation: please see the second to last paragraph here:
Thanks for the information. I did speak with the iDatabase company and they advised that their program will not meet my simply needs to maintaining a database and printing labels. The database is rather small, less than 100 entries so I am thinking that there must be something out there that can meet my needs. I don't even care about importing the database, I can easily set one up from scratch.
There are several cheaper databases mentioned in my page 5 though I've not had the chance to try them out. 'Panorama Sheets' looks promising as it will print Avery labels.
Does AppleWorks 6.2.4 allow you to export your database into a text-based, comma separated values (CSV) document? On El Capitan, if you were to install the free, Avery Design & Print software, it will perform a Mail Merge of your CSV values into your label fields. Here's a 2-minute Avery YouTube video:
Creating a Mail Merge Using Avery Design & Print
You can export as ASCII but if I remember correctly it's tab separated fields, return separated records. Of course that's not too difficult to deal with though it does get interesting if your fields already include commas as part of the text.
Database Program for El Capitan
