Sun And Apple Team Up For Staroffice For Mac
For us Mac users it would be very helpful if it was possible to open AppleWorks/ClarisWorks files in OOo. (The program changed name.) There are many possibilities to open and save in different formats in OOo, but it seems none of the most popular Mac formats are there. MS Word for Mac was a different format than on Windows quite long (I think untill Office 98), and Claris MacWrite II and Pro was very popular on the Mac for many years.
And Claris FileMaker (Pro) for databases. But the most important one is ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, wich allmost everybody used (since it used to be shipped with the computers) untill very recently. The text documents, as well as the spreadsheat, database and graphics documents would be very sensible to be able to open in OOo. The problem now is that AppleWorks only excists in one version with updates for OS X before it was discontinued, so those of us that didn't change to OS X fast enough never had it. Since newer Intel Macs can no longer run older apps (so called 'Classic' MacOS 7-9.2 programs) there is no possibility to read these old files with the older versions of AppleWorks or ClarisWorks they were made with either.
So then the only possibility is to buy MS Office, iWorks or go pirate and get hold of AppleWorks 6.x.x. I would love to avoid those options. Posts: 1 Joined: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:40 pm. Thanks for the quick response. Excuse my confusion - I am trying to open a letter attached to an email from a job I have coming up. It's at a school so of course they have MACs which I have no experience with.
It wouldn't open at all until I got Star Office installed and I did save the file as.odt. I tried a few choices to save documents with.doc extensions but the results were the same. When I looked at the articles you suggested I seemed to need to have Claris Works on my computer to make the changes. I'm really quite confused.
Is there something I'm missing? Thanks again'. I was just thinking - do I have to ask the school administrator to save the letter with one of the extensions you mentioned and resend it to me? If that is what is needed I could a least try that if there are future communications to deal with. It is quite easy, if you follow these steps and are willing to scroll through some gibberish in the first few pages of your opened document. Open open office select open file select your claris works.cwk file When open office gives you an dialog window about the ASCII Filter Option, don't just ignore it, try a few of the options of HOW to open the.cwk doc.
I chose western Europe (Apple Macintosh) and it opened th.CWK file with a gibberish, but on the 4th page or so, the original text of the claris work doc started and the entire document was there. Select the clean text.
Sun And Apple Team Up For Staroffice For Mac
Copy and paste in to a new open office or word document Done. JohnHa wrote:It is always worth looking to see if you can buy a copy of an obsolete program which will allow to save in a different, more modern format, which can then be converted to.odt. For example, you can currently buy Appleworks 6 for Mac from ebay.co.uk for $23. AppleWorks will not run on any versions of Mac OS X later than ver.10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), the last version to include Rosetta which is required to read the obsolete PowerPC code that Appleworks is written in.
With the advent of system 10.7 ('Lion'), AppleWorks is no longer supported by the Macintosh operating system.16 AppleWorks word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files can be opened in the iWork applications Pages, Numbers, and Keynote respectively. There is no Apple-supplied application to open AppleWorks database, painting, or drawing files without converting them to a different format.