AppleWorks & OpenOffice

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 12:11 PM -0500 on 8/13/03, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 09:48  AM, Quillen, Channon wrote:
>>I have some documents created with AppleWorks 6.0. Will OpenOffice 
>>open them? If not, is there an application that can be used in YDL 
>>3.0 that will?
>
>AppleWorks, as great an application as it is (I use it all the 
>time), is stuck in its own little time zone, and no other 
>application has translators for it. Your best (perhaps only) 
>solution will be to save the AppleWorks documents as rich text 
>format (".rtf") or Microsoft Word document format (".doc"), then 
>open those documents in OpenOffice.

Well, on my Mac, Word X directly opens AW 6.2x files if I switch the 
File -> Open popup menu to "all readable files" ...

-ms
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Marc Stergionis
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