Appleworks docs conversion to indesign ? possible ?

Question is how best to convert appleworks docs to indesign. I am going from a macpro with older software to an intel base macbook pro and will be using new software of course. Is the best or only way to convert appleworks to microsoft word and then to indesign. Is microsoft word neccessary or is there another option? Much thanks,
Will

Word Processing documents can only be Saved As a limited range of formats, including Rich Text and a few versions of Word, the latest being 2007. If your document is formatted text without the layout being important then Rich Text could probably be imported into InDesign (with which I'm not familiar): otherwise you will have to do it via Word (and if your formatting is complicated it may not survive entirely accurately).
Other types of documents are more problematic: you may find this article helpful -
http://rfwilmut.net/aw

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HELP! I have held on to AppleWorks for as long as possible but Lion no longer supports it. Is there an app out there that converts AppleWorks to something Lion recognizes?

You can use Apple's iWorks suite of programs (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) to do most of it in Lion.
Pages will open AppleWorks 6 word processing documents.
Numbers will open AW 6 spreadsheets.
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You may already have those apps on your machine if you acquired it recently. If not, you can get them individually from the Mac Apple Store via download at about US$20 each; or on disk from the Apple Store for about US$80.
Note - with regard to word processing documents, Pages will open AW 6 versions, but not any earlier versions (such as AW 5 or ClarisWorks). So, be sure to update all you docs to AW 6 before transferring them to the Lion-booted machine.

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I would suggest you look at the fonts that are being used. It may be a font issue that is not properly being read by the translation program.

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Hello. I have numerous AppleWorks docs which, I conveniently found out after upgrading to Yosemite, will not open. I downloaded Pages -- which also refuses to recognize docs created by Apple's prior word processing software. So how can I access these docs, convert them to Pages-recognizable docs? Thank you.

The only way to deal with this is either use the iWork '09 n.3 applications on Yosemite, or install LibreOffice, which will open these files. From the LibreOffice installer, drag and drop it into /Applications. RIght click on the LibreOffice icon, and open. In the open dialog, choose open again. Drag the LibreOffice icon to your Dock and drop. Drag/drop your AppleWorks documents on the LibreOffice Dock icon.
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CO-doc. number assignment not possible for bus.trans. COIN in CO area 1000
i saw someone wrote ( as below )
Go to KANK,select the COIN and then click on Primary posting and save it now COIN is in primary posting then you create your ni range
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Read Roger Wilmut's excellent series of articles, Abandoning Appleworks:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html
also, a brody's: AppleWorks for the modern day, a migration tip
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Welcome to Apple Discussions SYGWS
iWork (no "s") is not an application, but the name given to the package of two applications, Keynote & Pages.
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Strange. I use AW6.2.3 under OS9.1 and do have the translators. Don't know why.
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Try AW6.2.3/6.2.4 updater first, and see the result.
Possibly, by any chance, AW628/629 updater does not provide these resources?
In my environment, OS9.1 + AW6.2.3, AW6's translators are installed as follows -
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(HD name is edited)
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Installed AppleWorks:Translators:DataViz Translation Mgr.
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