Re: Converting Appleworks to Excel

[anoneds@netscape.net (Ben Yates)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040221051902.15108.00000110@mb-m18.aol.com>...
> Bill Garber wrote:
> 
> >"Johnny B." <striderlirr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:AHwZb.22500$ac.2431732@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> >: I have a Apple //gs that I have used for years. I have a few
>  very large
> >: files made by Appleworks and saved to a Prodos 3.5 floppy, that
>  I would like
> >: to convert to Microsoft Excel or Word on my Win XP system. Does
>  anyone know
> >: a way to make this conversion?
> >:
> >: Thanks in advance
> >
> >CrossWorks or CiderPress come to mind.
> 
> And CrossWorks can automatically convert the files to Microsoft Works
> format, from which they can be imported into Excel or Word.
> 
> The conversion is not perfect, but it's pretty good.
> 
> -michael
> 
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For spreadsheets, can Appleworks save in SYLK format?
I had an Excel sheet that I had trouble loading in Works SS, due to
names too long, etc. Just for fun, I saved it in SYLK and loaded it in
Microsoft Multiplan on my TI-99, and didn't get any errors. But of
course all the pretty formatting was gone.

Ben