Re: Q: How to transfer Appleworks documents to a Mac or PC?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <D2vp1J.12wr@eclipse.torolab.ibm.com>,
Itrat Khan <itrat@flogger.torolab.ibm.com> wrote:
>Has anyone successfully transferred a formatted Apple //e Appleworks 
>file to a Mac (or PC)? I have an Appleworks word-processing document
>(400 pages, across six disks) that I'd like to get on a PC and 
>preserve the boldface, italics, etc. 

   No, but I've converted other stuff. The procedure should work.

>Here is what I think might work: transfer the files onto a 3.5" 
>ProDOS disk that the Mac can read. Does Clarisworks (formally
>known as Appleworks) still support the Appleworks file format?
>If so, I'd like to read the files in with Clarisworks and convert
>them to RTF format. Bingo, I'm done. I can use RTF with almost
>anything.

   Firstly, Clarisworks on the Mac/Windoze has always been known as
Clarisworks; Appleworks has been a Apple II based program.  But
anyhow, put them on a 3.5" disk first. Take to a mac. ClarisWorks
(Mac) ever since the beginning has supported importing Appleworks 2.x
files. (Clarisworks 2.x may have added support for Appleworks 3.x
stuff, but I'm not sure off the top of my head). Then, save as RTF
format, and you'll keep most formatting stuff.

   One nice thing about Clarisworks (2.1 had this; dunno about
previous ones) is that you can drag multiple files to convert onto the
CW icon and it'll batch convert them in one swoop. Saves a lot of
opening & saving.

Nathan Mates
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