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Convert WORD to Appleworks

Jul 12, 2005 3:30PM PDT

I want to take a document that I created in MS WORD 2002 to a friends Mac with Appleworks. I don't know the Mac versions and she has no "convertor" software and does not have Internet connection. Is there a way that I can save this file on a CD so that she will be able to open it in Appleworks?

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AppleWorks
Jul 12, 2005 9:53PM PDT

Duplicate posts make it difficult to keep track of you Happy
I'm going to assume you have a CD burner and can burn CD's without a problem.
First, open your Word Document and then go to File/Save As. Choose a location to save to and, at the bottom of that window, change the As Type (might be Of Type) to RTF (Rich Text Format) Then save. Now you have the original with an extension of .doc and the copy as .rtf.
Put both of them onto a CD, her Mac will be able to read your PC CD, and take it around to your friend. Built into AppleWorks there used to be a whole bunch of convertors but in the newer versions they were removed. However, AppleWorks will almost certainly be able to open the .RTF version of the file. If it does not open by double clicking on it, tell your friend to start AppleWorks and then go to File/Open menu and open it from there. Should be no problem, let us know.
Up until Version 5.5, AppleWorks could open almost any format using the built in convertors

Good luck

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Thank you
Jul 13, 2005 12:40AM PDT

Sorry for the duplicate post--wasn't sure which forum to use. I can burn a CD; your suggestion would have been my "experiment"--it's just good to know that is probably a solution. I'll let you know.

Thank you

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It worked
Jul 13, 2005 10:55PM PDT

She opened the RTF file in a text editor and then copied/pasted to Appleworks. She was so excited that she did not have to type a 2-3 page document that she didn't even try to open it directly in Appleworks. The only problem was some paragraph formatting with space before/after that I had used in WORD and we didn't know how to handle it in Appleworks.

Thanks for helping make this a simple process and now we know that we can share projects with no problem.