Re: In search of useful movement of AWGS files to Mac

[rowland.carson@bt-sys.bt.co.uk (Rowland Carson)]

In article <3lv4a6$ak6@strauss.udel.edu>, cav@strauss.udel.edu (Steve
Cavanaugh) wrote:

> To move databases or spreadsheets from AWGS to ClarisWorks, you 
> will need to have your dad save them as ASCII files (tab 
> delimited) and then import them into ClarisWorks.
[ ... ]
> I _believe_ that formulas are lost in spreadsheets
> done this way.

I don't know if AWGS provides this capability, but if you can save 
spreadsheets as SYLK format, that will preserve formulae. Steve is
correct that a plain tab or csv ascii file will contain only values,
not formulae, which often makes the whole exercise pointless. SYLK
files are ascii text too, of course and so can be read (almost) anywhere.

cheers

Rowland

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