Importing drawing to Word results in pict chunkiness

I've always had great success performing all my drawing tasks in older versions of Appleworks and especially when it went through its ClarisWorks phase, and then easily pasting them into a Word document. However now when I reverse the process, in order to modify the drawing, by copying or cutting out of Word and back into Appleworks the result is unusable, with text elements changing size and graphic elements moving. I'm having to re-create virtually decades worth of work. And then when I paste back into word all I get is this chunky, pict-looking graphic that is not worthy or duplication. Can someone explain (in layman's terms) exactly what is happening and if there is a solution to this?

Unfortunately Word does not have an Appleworks compatible drawing module. It is likely that Clarisworks and Appleworks were copying a PICT image into the clipboard, and pasting that as a raster image into Word.
Hopefully you still have the original Appleworks or Clarisworks drawings to bring back up into Appleworks. http://www.eazydraw.com/ offers an ability to bring the draw documents into a modern format that more programs can use.

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