I made discovery, now I realize that I am late to this party. However, when our old Mac finally died we discovered that the Mac mini was pretty cheap, and since we had all the perifials already, we just got that instead, and decided to fix our old Mac in a few months for our kiddo.
When we did this it was an easy decision, because we have had many computers over the years and love them, but a several years ago we bought a Mac, and WOW is pretty much all I have to say. Computing life has been way easier since then. Now after we got our mini home and hooked it up, I went to open a few files, only to learn that the new system no longer supported Appleworks or couldn't open them. PANIC WHAT shock! How could this happen. My first thought always goes to a I should have thought.... before my video failed!
I hit the internet and only found weird answers like.... "if you are using .cwk then you are a dinosaur" and many more. I mean who cares if I am a dinosaur. I was an Appleworks addict, it did everything and a lot more than my Microsoft Office Professional did, and it was free (and
prior to our Mac I lOVED the MS Office products)! Now calling me a dinosaur, or old, or even archaic does not fix my problem. I believe in share and share alike... Which is why I am not a fan of tech forums, it seems that the only people who generally respond include weird little snippets like the one abouve. I mean really people lets get creative here, is it possible to answer a question without all that.
So I made some copies of a .cwk file and began experimenting, and only 5 minutes later I found a solution to most of those files. First off, you can get the new programs Pages, Numbers, and Keynote at the App store for about $20 each. I bought them separately because I don't need a presentation program, so I only purchased pages and numbers. The first item I converted was a spreadsheet, I right clicked the item and then selected "get info" scrolled down to "Open with" and changed it to Numbers, then closed the "get info" box. Then double clicked the file, and it opened in Numbers with no problems. I was shocked at how easy it was. I did the same thing with letters or other word processing (archaic phrase... yes I know) but used Pages instead of Numbers.
For the files that were created using the Drawing feature of Appleworks use EazyDraw or Intalgio I have not tested these yet, as I have not had an immediate need for it. But there are a quite a few recommendations for it.
So there you have it, a fairly easy change over from Appleworks. So I think we can relax and breathe now!
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