Open Classic AppleWorks-Files in Office for OS X

Hi All!
I must open a file I drew years ago on OS 9.? with Appleworks! I do not have any Appleworks version! Just Microsoft Office for OS X and that doesn´t work!
How can I Open this file???
Please help me urgently!!!!
Thanks!
Viktor

Microsoft Office v.X and newer will open an AppleWorks word processing documents.
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/resources.aspx?pid=resourcekits&rk=offic ex&article=/mac/officex/ork/New_Features.xml>
Alternatively, try Panergy's icWord.
<http://www.panergy-software.com/products/lp/we/gn_op.html>
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I never have had good luck opening AppleWorks documents in Word 2003 on my work PC. Where Word 2004 on my Mac opens them almost flawlessly, they will open on the PC, but full of "garbage text." A one-line AppleWorks word processing document became 26 pages in Word. Of course, Word won't even know it can open the AppleWorks file if it doesn't have the .cwk extension. And it can only open word processing files.
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