Converting Appleworks Documents

I've got a big problem: lots of really old Appleworks files, the kind Pages won't open. Is there any way to open the stuff? I been reading posts, and am seeing "no, no, noooooo way". The old version of Norton Anit-Virus used to be able to look inside just about any file, and you could copy and paste into Microsoft, etc. Nothing fancy, but it enabled resurrecting hopelessly unavailable files. Does Norton still have this ability? Many thanks in advance.

AppleWorks/ClarisWorks word processor files can be opened by a text editor such as Text Edit or Text Wrangler. You'll get a lot of 'extra' text that AppleWorks inserts to carry application and formatting information, etc., but the text of the WP document will be included in readable form.
Other types of AW documents will also open in Text editors, but the results won't be as easily useful as WP documents.
Regards,
Barry

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