Re: Converting Appleworks Files

["julian814" <julian814@hotmail.com>]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> 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.

Well, you should know, shouldn't you? ;-) I'll give it a whirl. The man
whose GS I sometimes work on is worried that some day his GS might give
out, so I thought it might be a good idea to find a way to transfer his
files over to his PC. As far as I can tell, most of what he has is for
the word processor, but he might have some spreadsheets as well.

Thanks!


Ralph