AppleWorks documents not opening

So I don't really know what I am doing. I have a really old version of Apple Works on my old computer and have taken all the documents from it and put them on my MBP. I have not bought Word, Page 2, or Apple Works. Any suggestions on which one I should purchase? I was thinking I would get the Page 2.
I have the 30 trial for the Word but I cannot open any of my AppleWorks documents. How do I get these open and save them in a way that is compatible with Word or Page 2?
Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions michaeldurant
Other than the fact that your document won't open, your question/problem is not the same as the original poster's (OP's) & it would have been best for you to start a new topic.
256 MB of RAM in OS X is minimal & 512 MB is still on the low side when working with documents with a lot of graphics. The amount of space the documents takes up on your hard drive, 55 MB for yours, is not the same as how much RAM it will use, although the bigger the file size, the more the application & system resources will be taxed. I have a database with photos in a multimedia field that takes 87.3 MB on my hard drive. Checking in Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder), Real Memory for AppleWorks goes from 15 MB to 41+ MB after opening the DB.
It's possible that one or more of the pictures you added in the last week are corrupt. If you have AutoSave turned on in Preferences & can remember when the last time you were able to successfully open this file, you may be able to find a copy more recent than the 35 MB one. Look in Documents > AppleWorks User Data > AutoSave where you will find documents with files with long names consisting of letters & numbers. Sort the folder by date in List view & try opening one.
Since this is a word processing document, if you have Pages (part of iWork) installed, Pages may be able to open it. Also, a text editor may help recover any raw text, not the pictures, if you need to rebuild the file.
I don't know how you are putting the pictures in the file or what format the pictures are. AppleWorks does best with graphics in PICT format. Even though the PICT files themselves are larger in the Finder, the resulting AppleWorks file will be smaller &, probably, less likely to corrupt. I use GraphicConverter to convert graphics to PICT for use in AppleWorks, but you can also use Preview.
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