Appleworks in Office 2004

[Doug Thompson]

I've just installed Office 2004 on my new Powerbook. It claims to open
Appleworks Files in Word and Excel but doesn't seem to recognise any of
them when I try. I tried giving them a .cwk extension but that didn't
help.

Any help available? I've got hundreds of files on my old computer that
I need to access on the new one.

Doug

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I've just installed Office 2004 on my new Powerbook. It claims to open
Appleworks Files in Word and Excel but doesn't seem to recognise any of
them when I try. I tried giving them a .cwk extension but that didn't
help.

Any help available? I've got hundreds of files on my old computer that
I need to access on the new one.

Word:
Did the "Open an AppleWorks file in Word", and "About opening an
AppleWorks file in Word" topics in Word Help not give enough information?

XL:
I don't think there's been a built-in translator for Appleworks to XL
for at least 2 versions, now. However, Appleworks 6 can save in XL
format. MacLinkPlus Deluxe is fairly expensive as a translator, but it's
worked well in the past for me.

 

[Doug Thompson]

No. The Help files tell you the obvious. It just doesn't work!

The XL application claims to open Appleworks files. It also doesn't
seem to.

Is it just me or are others finding the same?

I know I could save them all again in Word or Excel format but there
are a lot of files! I bought Office understanding that it would open
them.

Doug

 

[JE McGimpsey]

No. The Help files tell you the obvious. It just doesn't work!

What does "It just doesn't work!" mean? Does Word throw an error? Does
it bring in garbage? Crash? Something else?

The XL application claims to open Appleworks files. It also doesn't
seem to.

I don't see the claim you're seeing (though you can filter files on
Appleworks files).

Is it just me or are others finding the same?

I just tested by opening Appleworks 5 and 6 word processing files in
Word04. Worked fine.

Appleworks spreadsheets cause XL to throw an error (no compatible
translator).

I know I could save them all again in Word or Excel format but there
are a lot of files! I bought Office understanding that it would open
them.

If you can find the claim the XL opens Appleworks spreadsheets, I'd
suggest you could use it to request a refund, since that would have been
misrepresentation.

I've never used Appleworks, but I also wonder if you can't use
Applescript to use it to convert your files to XL.

 

[Michel Bintener]

What does "It just doesn't work!" mean? Does Word throw an error? Does
it bring in garbage? Crash? Something else?


I don't see the claim you're seeing (though you can filter files on
Appleworks files).


I just tested by opening Appleworks 5 and 6 word processing files in
Word04. Worked fine.

Appleworks spreadsheets cause XL to throw an error (no compatible
translator).


If you can find the claim the XL opens Appleworks spreadsheets, I'd
suggest you could use it to request a refund, since that would have been
misrepresentation.

I've never used Appleworks, but I also wonder if you can't use
Applescript to use it to convert your files to XL.

As far as I know, no version of Excel I've owned (v.X and 2004) has ever
been able to import AppleWorks spreadheet files, nor do I remember ever
seeing that claim anywhere. The import into Word is something different,
though; that one should be working. First of all, you have to make sure that
the AppleWorks files you are working on are exclusively word processing
documents. In case you're trying to import drawings or so, you're out of
luck; Word can only import word processing files.