FWIW, Pages will read and translate most AppleWorks 6 word processing documents. It sounds like you really didn't try, as it's pretty straightforward. I don't know about Numbers and AppleWorks spreadsheets, but others have said that most will translate. If you export AppleWorks database data in the right way, FileMaker Pro will read it. (It cannot pick up things like reports, customized views, searches, etc.)
Don't expect much for AppleWorks drawing documents, though: not much else can deal with them. However, you can easily drag most of the pieces from AppleWorks drawing documents into a Pages layout document and recreate the document, with a lot of added capabilities.
AppleWorks does run on Intel Macs (using Rosetta) under 10.4 and 10.5. Thus, you can use AppleWorks, itself, to "Save as" Word or Excel documents. If you have a lot of old documents to translate, you might try MacLink Plus Deluxe. It doesn't work on everything, but does work on many files. I've used it recently to translate AppleWorks 2 documents--from an Apple II. Why should Apple spend money to duplicate the functions of a well-established utility? (Some of the MacLinks Plus translators were in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks through version 5.)
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FWIW, Pages will read and translate most AppleWorks 6 word processing documents. It sounds like you really didn't try, as it's pretty straightforward. I don't know about Numbers and AppleWorks spreadsheets, but others have said that most will translate. If you export AppleWorks database data in the right way, FileMaker Pro will read it. (It cannot pick up things like reports, customized views, searches, etc.)Don't expect much for AppleWorks drawing documents, though: not much else can deal with them. However, you can easily drag most of the pieces from AppleWorks drawing documents into a Pages layout document and recreate the document, with a lot of added capabilities.
AppleWorks does run on Intel Macs (using Rosetta) under 10.4 and 10.5. Thus, you can use AppleWorks, itself, to "Save as" Word or Excel documents. If you have a lot of old documents to translate, you might try MacLink Plus Deluxe. It doesn't work on everything, but does work on many files. I've used it recently to translate AppleWorks 2 documents--from an Apple II. Why should Apple spend money to duplicate the functions of a well-established utility? (Some of the MacLinks Plus translators were in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks through version 5.)
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