Re: AppleWorks to AppleWorks GS info

[David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz]

In article <gy9TXB3w165w@bluemoon.use.com> comp.sys.apple2 writes:
> Having been using AppleWorks for years, and wanting to get as much 
> software as I possibly can in the GS/OS version (so I can run it under GNO 
> :) I've been looking at AppleWorks GS.
> 
> I have some pretty gnarly spreadsheets, which I don't want to have to 
> rework under AWGS, I don't even want to have to type in all the formulas 
> again. Is there a way to get all of my AppleWorks spreadsheet formats, 
> layouts, and formulas to read into AWGS?

Yes.  Use the 'Open' command under the File menu, and AppleWorks GS
will load the AppleWorks spreadsheet quite happily, formulas and all.

:-)


You need AppleWorks GS 1.1 (or was it 1.0v2?) to load in AppleWorks
3.0 files.  AppleWorks GS 1.0 will only load files from AppleWorks 2.1
and earlier.

A little editing will be required to get something that looks good
(e.g. text that straddles several columns should be reentered in a
single cell, and the 'overflow' cells should be cleared.

Note that you can't export AppleWorks GS spreadsheets back to
AppleWorks 3.0.


If you printed the spreadsheet to disk as an ASCII file, you would
have lost all of the formulas - only the values would be retained.
-- 
David Empson

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