Re: Converting Appleworks Files

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Mark Percival <mark@syndicomm.com> wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, is there any way to convert files from
>> Appleworks 3.0 to something a more modern computer could use? Thanks.
> 
> I would export the files to a disk image, send it to a Windows box and
> have CiderPress look at them.  From there you could copy and paste the
> document to your favorite program.

You're probably better off extracting them with "convert for use in
Windows" mode.  The database and spreadsheet are converted to CSV,
and the word processor to RTF, both of which can be loaded directly
by OpenOffice or Excel.  (You can also do the whole lot in one batch,
instead of loading and converting them individually.)

Excel did a reasonable job of interpreting the formulas in AppleWorks
spreadsheets.  Some of the functions need to be converted, but some of
the common ones worked right off, and the basic arithmetic seemed to work.

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