Appleworks won't open at all! help!

Yesterday I was working on a word document and all of the sudden, I got the little spinning disk. I did a force quit and restarted my computer. Then, I go to open Appleworks and it doesn't do anything. I click the icon in the dock and it bounces up once and does nothing. I've tried deleting the user folder to the trash and it still won't open. Any advice??? I don't know what's going on!

Welcome to Apple Discussions Heather
I think this could be the "Recent Items bug." It's been known to strike suddenly. There are three articles in the User Tips Library dealing with Recent Items.
Dale Gillard - AppleWorks slow? Spinning ball appears?
Dale Gillard - Recent items not visible/updated
Yvan Koenig - No More Recent Items

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