Appleworks Spreadsheet Saving Error

When using Appleworks 6 Spreadsheet, we tried to save the file as an Appleworks 5 Spreadsheet and received this message: "Off sheet references will not be saved". The formulas are not saved in the Appleworks 5 file.
What are off sheet references?

Off sheet = not on sheet
If your document contains references to cells in another spreadsheet, those references will not be preserved in the AW5 copy.

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AppleScript & AppleWorks Spreadsheet

For years I have been using AppleWorks spreadsheets on my Quadra (ease-of-use, nostalgia, old habits die hard, etc.). After eventually deciding to transfer some of them to my G5 and work with them (as well as creating new ones) in a newer and faster environment, I started fiddling around with using AppleScript to automate some of the repetitive tasks within each document, especially for the new ones. One task appears to have either no solution or a particularly well-hidden one. Except for the example given here, all the other scripting is working to my satisfaction.
The relevant part of the script is:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
    activate
    make new document at front with properties {document kind:SS}
    tell spreadsheet of document 1
        select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options"
    end tell
end tell
The line "select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" brings up a window as pictured here.
I would like to be able to use AppleScript to uncheck the checkboxes labelled "Row Headings" and "Column Headings" so that the whole script (of which this is only a small part), can run without ANY manual intervention. So far, no luck. The arrow keys and tab key (with and without modifier keys) have no effect within this window. If you hold down the command key for a a few seconds, the window displays command-key equivalents for the checkboxes, as pictured here;
Turning on GUI scripting by enabling access for assistive devices in System Preferences and using calls to System Events with various permutations of the "keystroke" command had no effect. To try to discover if the items in the window were actually UI elements and of what type, I used the "get entire contents of window ... " approach, which worked beautifully in the main document window. The calls I used, inserted after the line ""select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" and before the two "end tell" lines, were:
tell application "System Events"
     tell process "AppleWorks 6"
          get entire contents of window 1          -- each of these four lines,
          get entire contents of window 2          -- and other various similar attempts, was used by itself
          get every item of window 1               -- (all included consecutively here to save space)
          get every UI element of window "Display"
     end tell
end tell
The line "get entire contents of window 1" only took effect once the "Display" window had been dismissed, and then it quite happily returned the contents of the main document window. The others returned either: "System Events got an error: NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4" or "System Events got an error: Can't make every item of window 1 of process "AppleWorks 6" into type reference."
My guess is that the window "Display" is a modal dialog which is not letting anything else happen until it is dismissed. In the script, the next command after "select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" waits until the window has been dismissed.
I have also tried saving the document (once the row and column headings have been hidden) as a spreadsheet template. That ALMOST achieved what I wanted. The new spreadsheet template shows up in Starting Points as "Spreadsheet" with the previous (pre-defined) template being renamed to "Standard SS". When clicking on the new template in Starting Points, a new SS document opens up with the row and column headings hidden, but when a new SS document is created using AppleScript, it uses the pre-defined template (headings not hidden). So near yet so far!
If anybody has any suggestions, tricks and workarounds for both AppleScript and AppleWorks, I am willing to try them out.
If I can't get this (small) part of the script to work without having to use the mouse or keyboard, then it's not the end of the world. But I do like sitting back and watching the computer do what it is good at - repetitive tasks, etc. - from start to finish.
- - -    break for food and thought   - - -
While not having found the reason for AppleScript's inability to access the "Display" window, I have worked out a way to achieve what I want. Even though the AppleScript command "make new document at front with properties {document kind:SS}" causes AppleWorks to ignore the customized template document and use the original, pre-defined one, the following routine makes a copy of the customized template document, converts it from a stationery document (template), renames it and opens it.
tell application "Finder"
     set TemplateCopy to duplicate file "AppleWorks SS Options.cws" of folder "Templates" of folder "Starting Points" of folder "AppleWorks 6" of folder "Applications" of startup disk to desktop
     set stationery of TemplateCopy to false
     set NewFileName to "My spreadsheet.cwk"
     set the name of TemplateCopy to NewFileName
     open file NewFileName
end tell
One other approach which might have led somewhere was to explore the ability to prevent row and column headings from printing, even if they are displayed on screen. Scripting the print end of things may not have been easy, if possible at all, and would have required much more complexity in scripting. Also, I would prefer the screen display to match what is going to be printed.
The end result I wanted has been achieved, although using a different approach than I expected. Given the legacy status of AppleWorks 6 and its oddities of behaviour with AppleScript (even though much functionality was added and many bugs fixed from version 5), I doubt that the original approach will ever work, although if anybody has some ideas/knowledge, etc., I am willing to listen.

Scripting printing in AppleWorks
As a spin-off from my efforts described above, I think I have found a way of using AppleScript to save documents from AppleWorks as PDF's. At the moment the script is pretty wordy and maybe not as efficient as it could be, but it works (almost 100% of the time).
In the Print dialog, the tab key can be used to move between the various elements in the dialog. Depending on which one has been arrived at after each press of the tab key, you can select and do various things by using the space key, up and down arrow keys and the return key. I'm not sure if they can all be consistently emulated using the keystroke command from within System Events, as here I have restricted myself to just the tab, down arrow and return keys.
When the Print command is issued (via keystroke "p" using command down), the Print dialog opens up.
On my system, the number of copies is highlighted by default when the Print dialog opens and by pressing the tab key five times the PDF button is selected (although it's not all that obvious). The down arrow then activates the dropdown menu - press it again and the first item in that menu is highlighted. Press Return and that item is accepted and the Save dialog comes up.
On my system it takes one press of the tab key with shift down to move "back" from the Save As text field to the Save button (originally I had been using ten presses of tab in the "forward" direction), at which point Return selects it and the document is saved as a PDF. As with the Print dialog, the arrow keys, space key and Return can all be used to do/select various things along the way.
In the script I have inserted a number of delays to give things time to happen. Originally they were longer and allowed me to observe what was being selected at each emulated press of the tab key. Those that are one second or longer need, at least on my system, to remain fairly long otherwise I get errors such as "connection not valid" and the script hanging to the point where the only way out was to force quit. I would assume that some things are timing-dependent and need a specific amount of time before the next action can be performed. If anybody tries my script and finds odd things happening, I would suggest lengthening the delay times as the first thing to try. Also, on various System versions, there might be a difference in the number of tab presses required to move from the default highlighted attribute to the PDF and Save buttons.
The script as it stands at the moment requires at least one AppleWorks document to be open (and checks for that to avoid an error at the start). It could be modified to be a droplet (and possibly open only one document at a time from those dropped onto it, as AppleWorks would have a limit of how many documents it could have open concurrently), but I will get around to doing that later on.
The script itself:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
    activate
    set HowManyDocs to count of documents
    if HowManyDocs > 0 then
        set DocNames to name of every document
        repeat with CounterA from 1 to HowManyDocs
            try
                set ThisDoc to (item CounterA of DocNames)
                select document ThisDoc
                tell application "System Events"
                    tell process "AppleWorks 6"
                        keystroke "p" using command down -- brings up Print dialog
                        delay 0.1
                        tell window "Print"
                            delay 1 -- or longer
                            repeat with CounterB from 1 to 5
                                keystroke tab -- tabs through to PDF Button
                                delay 0.1
                            end repeat
                            key code 125 -- down arrow - selects PDF dropdown menu
                            delay 0.1
                            key code 125 -- down arrow - selects first item in PDF dropdown menu
                            delay 0.1
                            keystroke return -- accepts selection and brings up Save dialog
                            delay 1
                            keystroke tab using shift down -- tabs back 1 to Save button
                            delay 0.1
                            keystroke return -- "presses" Save button
                            delay 2 -- or longer
                        end tell
                    end tell
                end tell
            end try
            close document ThisDoc -- closes each document after it is "printed" to PDF
        end repeat
    else
        display dialog "You have no AppleWorks documents open." & return & "Open some and then run this script again."
    end if
end tell

Scripting AppleWorks Spreadsheet

I am trying to write a script to create an Appleworks Spreadsheet document with various characteristics and content, going one step at a time.
So far I have been able to create the document and name it via AppleScript, using the following:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
activate
make new document at front with properties {name:"NewDoc123", document kind:SS}
end tell
As an occasional user of AppleScript it took me a while (don't laugh) to get the "document kind:SS" bit right. Once I saw the potential of "with properties" I thought it must be possible to specify the number of columns and rows. To give myself some clues on the grammar/syntax/formatting, etc. I saved a SS document and did a "get properties" using AppleScript. To my dismay, it provided information only on the following properties:
class, name, index, displayed name, name extension, extension hidden, container, disk, position, bounds, kind, label index, locked, description, comment, size, physical size, creation date, modification date, icon, URL, owner, group, owner privileges, group privileges, everyones privileges, file type, creator type, stationery, product version, version.
It did not have any mention of the rows and columns, unless that is hidden somehow in the bounds and size properties.
Is it actually possible to specify the number or rows and columns, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Viewing the AppleWorks dictionary I have seen references to "data bounds", "object specifier", and "named range". These seem to be tantalizing hints of maybe what I am looking for. However, I cannot find anything anywhere which tells me how to use them, not even an example script.
Quadra 700 - sys 7.0.1, PowerMac 9500/200 - sys 9.2.2, Beige G3 MT - sys 10.3.9.

Even though it's not quite the method I was envisaging, it achieves the desired result and is plenty quick enough, plus there is some visual effect to "keep the troops entertained". This will certainly enable me to proceed further. Thanks a million.
Your additions to my script appeared to be missing a line, but I had no trouble understanding what you were explaining, and added a line so that it reads:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
activate
make new document at front with properties {name:"NewDoc123", document kind:SS}
tell spreadsheet of document 1
-- Note that the name contains an ellipsis (option-colon) and not three periods.
select (rows 10 thru 500) -- this is the extra line I inserted
select menu item "Delete Cells…" of menu "Format"
select (columns 5 thru 40)
select menu item "Delete Cells…" of menu "Format"
select cell "A1"
end tell
end tell
Without the extra line, the script brought up the dialog asking which way to shift cells.
The only drawback I can see in this method is that it relies on a default AppleWorks Spreadsheet always being 40 columns by 500 rows. If the default ever gets changed, there would have to be some error-checking lines inserted to check for range errors.

How do you open an Appleworks spreadsheet (.wks) in Numbers?

Is it possible to open an Appleworks spreadsheet (.wks) in Numbers? If it is not possible is there a file converter out there somewhere?. The oiriginal spreadsheet was created in 2004 on a MacBook running Appleworks.

Numbers '09 (but not Numbers 3.1) should be able to open an AppleWorks spreadsheet that was saved in AppleWorks running on a MacBook. That file would have the extension .cwk, though.
.wks is the extension for Microsoft Works, and I don't know of anything else that opens those files.

Doc. saved(error in account determination)

Dear gurus,
I have done an order-delivery-pgi-billing, but the error, document-----saved(error in account determination) is given, what do i do?
Tanx
Maureen

Dear Maureen,
Open your billing document and go to Environment - Acct. Determination Analysis - Revenue accout.
Check over there wheather ny account is determined by the system or not.
if not then go to IMG - Sales and distribution - Basic Function - Account Assignment/Costing - Revenue Account Determination - Assign G/L Account
Click on the General then assign your G/L account with the combination of chart of account and sales organistion.
Hope so this will solve your problem.
Keep me updated.
Suneet Prakash.

Error for Billing Document- saved(Error in account determination)

Dear all,
When i am trying to creat the billing document , it is saving with error in account .
Can any body tell me the reason for this error.Actually i have maintained the required GL accounts in VKOA.
9011000024 000000 Document 9011000024 saved (error in account determination)
    Technical data
    Tech. data details
     Client
     Group Number
     Sales Document Number                  9011000024
     Item Number of the SD Document      000000
     Schedule Line Number                      0051
     Counter in Control Tables                  00
     Message Identification                      VF
     System Message Number                 051
     Output Type                                     E
     Message Variable 01                    9011000024
     Message Variable 02
     Message Variable 03
     Message Variable 04
     Group Type
Thanks In Advance
Parag

Hi
Put the billing doc in change mode and then enter
From the top menu bar-environment-account determination analysis---revenue account determination
If you explore that system will give some hint of what is missing?
Check in CMR whether account assignment category is mainatained in Billing tab of sales area data
Check in MMR whether account assignment category is mainatained in sales org data2 tab
Ensure that VKOA settings are correct?
Then go VF02 and click on the green flag in the initial screen or shift+F4
All the best
Regards
raja

Word processing software: Appleworks, NeoOffice / saving as Word.doc

I would love some advice on word processing software.
My daughter is a college student who sometimes needs to e-mail her papers to a teacher (in Word). She does not have Word, and we're not buying it. In the past, she's used the school computers, but that's not always practical. She has a Mac, with Appleworks on it. If she works in Appleworks and saves a paper in Word format, will it really open okay in Word, with footnotes, images, etc. intact? (Obviously, she doesn't want to get a lower grade for something so silly and avoidable.) I think I have seen on this forum somewhere a mention of trouble with footworks in Appleworks docs saved in Word format.
Also, if she were to save as a Word doc, which format would be the best to use: Word Mac 6; Word Mac 98; Word Windows 6; Word Windows 97, 2000, XP 2002?
She also needs to do simple tables sometimes, which it looks like Appleworks can do. Do these translate well?
Also, I have looked at NeoOffice and OpenOffice online. It looks like one of those would be a possibility for her, too. Apparently, documents can be saved as Word files in those programs. Does anyone know if they are any better than Appleworks for this purpose? (For instance, with footnotes?)
From the NeoOffice Website: "You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms!" Does that mean a Word file will open and display okay, if you get one e-mailed to you? And that your own Word file will open and display okay on the other end? (I know this is not about Appleworks, but someone might know. . .)
Looking through this forum, I have seen software for opening Word documents (icWord), but my daughter needs to be able to (reliably) go both ways--saving and opening.
Thanks much in advance!
Christina
Powerbook G4; Intel iMac 20inch Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Overall, I'd concur with Ken.
AppleWorks/Word conversion does have difficulties with tables and footnotes.
Neo Office has better compatibility with MS Office, and runs without installing additional software on your Mac. But it's a Java implementation of an earlier version of OpenOffice.org, and is missing a few recent improvements. It's also a bit slow, although in some uses this is not a problem.
OpenOffice.org runs in an Xwindow (no relation to MS Windows), and requires installation of X11, Apple's Xwindow implementation. I haven't used it, but expect that it is a more compatible implementation than NeoOffice.
Both are free to download and use. If nothing else, one or the other is useful to see how successful the AppleWorks > Word translation of a particular file has been.
The closest compatibility will be achieved with MS Windows (Mac), of course. If your reasons for not purchasing MS Windows are strictly economic, you mmight want to rethink them. As a student, your daughter is elegible to purchase the Teacher and Student edition at a much lower price than the retail version. This version is operationally identical to the retail one. The largest difference is a licencing one—student/teacher licencees are not eligible for reduced price upgrades to the next version. They are, though, eligible to purchase the next Student & Teacher edition provided they still qualify at that time.
Regards,
Barry

Can't import AppleWorks spreadsheet with Japanese

I can't import an AppleWorks spreadsheet with Japanese writing into Numbers. The fonts are all just like this.
Å@Å@â∫ãLÇÃÇ∆Ç®ÇËå©êœÇËÇ¢ÇΩÇµÇ‹Ç∑ÅB
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Document 5100082865 saved (error in account determination).

When I am creating credit memo System through error message Document 5100082865 saved (error in account determination).
What could be the reason..

To resolve the error, you can analyze account determination in the billing document. Process:
Goto T.Code: VF02 & Enter Invoice number
Next (On the top most strip) goto Environment
Next (Select Environment) go to Account determination
Next (In Account Determination) select Revenue Account Determination (first option)
This will list all the condition types in the Billing document & analyze each condition & check for which G/L accounts is not determined.
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1. VKOA not maintained for required combination
Solution: Maintain the combination in VKOA.
2. Account Assignment of Customer / material not maintained in Customer / Material Master (If maintained in combination in VKOA).
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Option 1 (Standard solution):
step 1: Cancel Billing Document --> Reverse PGI --> cancel Delivery --> Cancel Sales Order
step 2: Maintain Customer master / Material Master correctly.
step 3: Recreate sales Order --> Delivery --> PGI --> Invoicing.
Option 2:
Force the Account Assignment Group of Customer / Material through Debug in change mode of Billing document, which will release Billing Document to Accounting.
3. Account Key not maintained in Pricing Procedure:
Impact: This may create accounting document, but if condition type, which are to be posted to account, but do not have account key maintained in pricing procedure, it will not be post the relevant condition type to G/L account.
From FI Side, you require to check that all the G/L account has been maintained through T.Code: FS00. G/L account being Master data has to be created in each client ot uploaded through LSMW / SCATT / BDC.
In Billing Document in change mode (in the first screen where we enter Billing Document number), on the top most left hand corner, take a dropdown on Billing Document & select Release to accounting. Here you can get the under mentioned possible message:
1. G/L account not found
2. Cost Element not maintained for G/L account.
In both the above cases, FI consultant requires to take corrective action.
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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Document 510008000 saved (error in account determination).

When I am creating credit memo System through error message Document 510008000 saved (error in account determination).
What could be the reason..

Hi Murali,
This is related to account determination issue
You have been saved the document but that value not transfereed to the G/L accounts(i.e Account document not created.
To overcome this go to VKOA transaction do the revenue account determintion.
Assign the account determination procedure to your billing document type in VOFA transaction.
I hope it will help you,
Regards,
Murali.
Edited by: Murali Mohan.Tallapaneni on May 30, 2008 11:26 AM

Appleworks spreadsheet e-mail to a PC?

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Anybody else get this error. It started a few days after I installed Leopard and started ripping my cd's onto an external hard drive. Once I get that error message I am unable to quit or force quit iTunes, but it does still function. I tried repairing permissions, and a restart(which ended up hanging up, and I had to hold the power button down) but the error came back after a while, and the same situation unable to quit or force quit, so I finally clicked the don't tell me again box. I really don't want to have to do a hard restart every time I use iTunes. Any suggestions?

I see no information about an error 54 but there is an error -54
From an OS9 reference, error -54 is a software lock on a file or a permissions error. (Some of the old codes still apply to OSX although there is no formal list of OSX error codes.)
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iTunes Library cannot be saved (Error -54) - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1912814 - various things to try.
Unknown error (-54) while syncing ipod - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1082953 - problem was locked files
Why does iTunes keep showing a -54 error when I sync my iPad? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3727114
Error -54 possibly related to Touch Copy - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3727114 - cleared by deleting preferences on iPad.
iTunes: Missing folder or incorrect permissions may prevent authorization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1277
Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963

Opening an AppleWorks spreadsheet in Pages.

Hi, there !
I am puzzled. I am trying to open an AppleWorks (6.2.9) made spreadsheet with Pages and cannot. Pages does not seem to acknowledge my AppleWorks document. When I launch Pages and try to open the desired file, it does not allow me to select the file (listed but not selectable). What is evenmore puzzling is that the same procedure worked fine with wordprocessing AppleWorks documents ! So here is my question : how do I get Pages to open an AppleWorks spreadsheet document ?
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iMac 700 PPC G3 SE Mac OS X (10.4.7) 512 Mo, Airport.

Olivier,
I can understand why this might puzzle you. Pages will open AppleWorks word processing docs, but it will not open AppleWorks spreadsheet docs. While Pages offers a few formulae to allow limited spreadsheet functionality, it doesn't have a true spreadsheet module like AppleWorks does.
Having said that, iWork '07 will likely be released next Tuesday at MacWorld San Francisco, and it's possible it will have a true spreadsheet application bundled with it.
-Dennis

Hidden "saving error" that send "Succesfully Transaction" message

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