Appleworks

[JBR]

Hi, I am using Office 2008 Home and Student, partly due to it saying that it has full interoperability with Appleworks 6. However I am unable to open any Appleworks text documents in Word.... Why is this, am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
Jonathan

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I don't think you are doing anything wrong, because I have the same
problem here.

Where does it say there is full interoperability?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi, I am using Office 2008 Home and Student, partly due to it saying that it
has full interoperability with Appleworks 6. However I am unable to open any
Appleworks text documents in Word.... Why is this, am I doing something
wrong?

No - IIRC, the last MacOffice version that was able to read Appleworks
documents was MacOffice 2001, and I really don't think they've
advertised compatibility since. If you have a source for that claim, let
us know.

I think Appleworks can save files in Word's .doc format, which can be
read by Word, but I'm not sure.

Certainly saving files in Appleworks as RTF (Rich Text Format) will
produce docs that can be read by Word.

If you have a *lot* of these documents, an excellent converter is
Dataviz's MacLinkPlus Deluxe:

http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html

 

[Michel Bintener]

No - IIRC, the last MacOffice version that was able to read Appleworks
documents was MacOffice 2001, and I really don't think they've
advertised compatibility since. If you have a source for that claim, let
us know.

Word v.X could do so as well. I haven't got any AppleWorks documents ready
to see if Word 2004 can also handle them; I gave up on AppleWorks a long
time ago.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Word v.X could do so as well. I haven't got any AppleWorks documents ready
to see if Word 2004 can also handle them; I gave up on AppleWorks a long
time ago.

Word 2004 could also. But AppleWorks is a dead program walking--even
Apple hasn't updated it for years. Word doesn't support it anymore, by
design. Sorry, JBR--time to convert to something new. Either Export out
of AW into RTF, or Word 2004 will open them, or Apple's Pages will open
AW6 documents, but I think not earlier versions--or MacLinkPlus, which
will also batch-convert documents. But best do the conversion in the
next couple of years so that you are protected for the future.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Word v.X could do so as well. I haven't got any AppleWorks documents ready
to see if Word 2004 can also handle them; I gave up on AppleWorks a long
time ago.

Ah, perhaps I was thinking of Word 2001 *writing* AW instead. But
honestly, that's been so long ago I don't really recall.