Opening files in appleworks

when l have opened appleworks recently and tried to open existing files, appleworks seems to lock up, also l have been unable to quit as all the functions under the tool bars are faded out. The only way to exit appleworks is to force quit the program.
can anyone help
thanks Adam Fitz

Hello
Maybe it's the bad old "Recent Items anomaly".
Look at the folder
bootVolume+:Users:+yourAccount:Documents:AppleWorks User Data:Starting Points:Recent Items:
and clean it from old aliases if as I assumes, it is heavily loaded.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 3 janvier 2008 17:50:26)

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