AppleWorks & OpenOffice

Clinton MacDonald yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:00:10 -0500


Marc:

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 12:34  PM, Marc Stergionis wrote:
> 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?[...]
>> AppleWorks [...] is stuck in its own little time zone, and no other 
>> application has translators for it. [...]
>
> Well, on my Mac, Word X directly opens AW 6.2x files if I switch the 
> File -> Open popup menu to "all readable files" ...

You are absolutely right! I just tried it now, and MS Word for OS X did 
a very good job of opening an AppleWorks (".cwk") document. I am *very* 
pleased to be wrong in this case.

Thanks for the correction. ;-)

Best wishes,
Clint

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