Opening an Appleworks spreadsheet in Excel

I transfered some files that were created in Appleworks 6.0.4 onto my MacBook with Office: Mac 2004. Nothing seems to open these files. I want to convert (or even copy) them into an Excel spreadsheet. Any suggestions?

Hi Melissa,
Welcome to Apple Discussions and the AppleWorks forum.
icExcel should also be able to save the spreadsheet as an MS Excel document.
Or you could:
• Open the AW spreadsheet in icExcell
• Select All and Copy*
• Launch MS Excel and open a new spreadsheet.
• Paste, then Save the spreadsheet using MS Excel.
*(I don't know if the select and copy part of this is possible in icExcel)
Regards,
Barry

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