Opening Word 97 Dociments in Appleworks

I have Word 97 documents stored as attachments to emails. When I download an attachment to my new iMac5, an icon for that document appear on my desktop. Double clicking on the icon results in the words "The Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive has expired. To order your copy of Office 2004, click Buy Now." (The choices are Buy Now, Learn More, and Remind Me later.)
Since these are simple text documents, I don't need or want Office 2004, but I'm being blocked from opening the document in Appleworks. How do I get past this?
iMAC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Peggy and Yvan have the main queston well in hand. This is just a note on a side issue you've raised.
If I further drag it to the Appleworks icon in that
window, it will open immediately without my setting
the File Format. I can't do anything to the
properties of the text (e.g. font size), but this
doesn't surprise me because it's a Windows 97 file
being opened in Appleworks format.
If you have the file open in AppleWorks, it's been converted to an AppleWorks file, and you should be able to edit it at will.
In AppleWorks (and on the Mac in general) there's a basic grammar that applies to everything you do:
1 Select something
2 Perform an action
To change the size of some text, you first have to select the text.
(Click and drag over to select a block of text, or
(double click on a word to select the word, or
(triple click to select a line*, or
(quadruple click to select a paragraph*, or
(click in the text, then press command-A to select all the text in the document.)
Then go to the Text menu and choose the action (specific size or bigger or smaller).
Regards,
Barry
*In some applications (including this forum open in Safari) triple-clicking will select a whole paragraph.

Similar Messages

Opening Word 2007 docs in Word 2013 and formatting is changed??

We just installed 2 new PC's on the network with Office 2013. Everyone else is running 2007. When an existing file is opened on either of the 2 PC's running Word 2013 the formatting and layout is changed. The font is changed even though
the same font is available and the layout is changed a little and the document does not fit on 1 page any more. It shifts about 2 or 3 lines at the bottom to the next page. When we open the same file in Word 2007 everything is still good. Word
2013 opens the file in 'compatibility mode' but still the layout is changed. We have hundreds of documents that we need to be able to open in both Word 2007 and 2013. Any suggestions on how we can make this work??

Hi,
As far as I know, if we open a Word 2007 file in Word 2013 with Compatibility Mode, it will preserve the layout of the document. I recommend you try to convert the document to the Word 2013 mode to test. Steps:
Click the File tab.
To convert the document without saving a copy, click Info, and then click
Convert.
Reference:https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-Word-2013-to-open-documents-created-in-earlier-versions-of-Word-609bbdba-96f2-407b-baaf-d8e53d60d34f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
If this issue still exists, could you send us a sample file via Email ([email protected])? I'd like to test it.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Opening appleworks word processing docs

So I am in the process of converting my 40,000 appleworks documents so they will open in Pages. I am converting all the word processing docs to appleworks 6.2.9. My question is: Is this enough? Will these documents now be safe or is there another step I have to take? I have converted my data bases to fileworks and just want to be sure that, down the road, I won't have a problem once all the AW WP docs are saved as AW6. I've been doing about 100 at a time. I open them all in AW6 and then quit AW and save them as AW6 docs and (I just hold down the return key) trash the AW pre-6 and Clarisworks docs after saving them as AW6 docs. Now they open in Pages. I'm just worried that the next system upgrade might screw me up again. I've been avoiding upgrading from 10.6.8 until I'm sure I won't lose these docs.

You can open AppleWorks 6 word processing, spreadsheets & presentations in Pages, Numbers & Keynote respectively. You cannot open any other type (draw, paint or database) of AppleWorks 6 documents with any iWork application nor can you open AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks documents.
There is no special importing needed. There are several methods you can use, common to most Mac applications. Use the Open dialog, Control- or right-click & choose the desired application from Open With in the contextual menu or drag the icon of the file onto the desired application icon in the Finder or the Dock.
If you want to (semi-) permanently change the application to open the files, you can do it in Get Info. I'm not sure how successful this would be with AppleWorks documents, though, since OS X does not differentiate between the various AppleWorks document types & there are three different applications you would use.

I would like to open word docs, excel and ppt? Is there an app for this?

Help. I understand there is an ap I can purchase to be able to work from my computer. I want to be able to open word/excel docs.

Pages has a version for iOS, and there are other apps for iOS, reportedly capable of reading these files. I do not like iPad so am not very good here, my son is better, for sure.

Word Perfect Docs

I have someone who needs to open Word Perfect docs on a Mac. Current solution is Parallels with Windows.. which seems like a complicated solution to a simple problem.
Is there a better way?

I think the freeware AbiWord will open WordPerfect files.
bd

Can't open Word .doc in Pages

I have Pages 5.1 and it won't open MS Word document (97-2004). I created the .doc documents in Appleworks. When Appleworks was replaced by Pages, my wife was left with a lot of .ckw files that could be accessed. I pulled out an old MBP and went back to TimeMachine backup and restored Appleworks, opened the .ckw files and saved them as Word documents with the goal of getting them into Pages. No luck so far. Originally Pages opened Word documents and you could save a document as as Word. Has something changed?

I'll also add that this "learning experience" has solved another issue that my wife had..."missing files". My wife has been complaining recently that her Pages files are disappearing. I would just shake my head and say that she was crazy. Now, I understand. Pages is now "beta" testing the iCloud storage of Pages documents. So, when she would save her Pages documents and quit Pages, her natural assupmption was that they were saved to her Documents Folder but they were actually saved to iCloud. Her normal routine is to go to Finder and go to Documents and look for a document she had created, and it wouldn't be there. Pages expects you to go to "Recent Documents" look either in iCloud or On My Mac.
I just played with it (I have Pages on my MBA and iPad and iPhone) and while I think Apple is on the right track with iCloud storage, I don't like the difficult process of "Moving" a document in order to get it to my Mac. I think it should be a simple choice of choosing where you want to save your document - iCloud or my Mac or a drive connected to my Mac.

Opening Word documents with Appleworks

I often receive Word documents as email attachments (though my hotmail account). I can download these Word documents to my desktop but when I click on them to open them I get an offer to purchase MS Word (which I do not have). I would like to be able to simply open the Word documents with Apple works--and I am hoping I can just click on them and have that happen automatically. But it doesn't. I have tried opening Appleworks and going into the wordprocessing program and then opening the Word document through that, but it only is successful part of the time. What can I do? I would like to have these Word douments open automatically in Appleworks but every time I click on them (i.e., their icon on my desktop) I get that advertisement from Microsoft asking me to buy Word. Is this ad blocking a normal function of Appleworks that would otherwise allow me to open Word documents with a click? And in any case, how can I proceed?

The ad for Word is almost certainly being tacked on through or at Hotmail (taglines or adware from Hotmail? Hoodathunk .....) ; it sure isn't coming from AppleWorks or from anything on your own system, unless you have that demo copy of Office still lurking somewhere. I suppose it could come from that, somehow.
Assuming you can get a clean attachment downloaded to your Desktop from Hotmail, the procedure for having what you want to happen automatically is fairly straightforward and, really, has nothing at all to do with Appleworks. Try the following:
--> Select (highlight) one of those downloaded .doc files from Word, then
--> use the Finder's Get Info command (⌘-I). In the window which appears,
--> see the "Open with" section, and set it to AppleWorks.

Open WORD docs question....

I have iWorks 09 and Microsoft Office 2004 on my MacBook. When someone emails me a Word Doc and I open it, the doc opens in Pages, not Word. Yet when I receive an Excel or Powerpoint, these open in the original format. What do I need to do to have Word docs open with Word and not Pages?
Thank you,
tribs

Brie
With inexperienced users, even some experienced users, you should never give incomplete instructions.
That is why, when I can, I give full starting point and paths of the necessary steps.
You may know where something is but not everyone else does.
This is the bane of most instructional books. The worst are those dealing with Adobe's products which suffer enormously from palletitis and features stashed willy nilly throughout a badly thought through interface.
Pages and OSX have some fairly key functions stashed out of sight and you do need to give the full path to access them.
Peter

Can you open word doc. In pages? (Opening a doc. From the web) in the iPad or iPod tuch?

Can you open word doc. In pages? (Opening a doc. From the web) in the iPad or iPod tuch?

NH,
This may seem a fine point, but iWork apps don't actually Open Office apps. They Import them. The reason I make this distinction for you is that when you view the result of the import, you may see some variations from what was in the Office document because of an imperfect translation, and when you make edits, you are editing an iWork document, not the original Office document.
Jerry

I have a brand new macbook pro 15" with latest Lion.Can anyone tell me why, when I open word or preview etc that multiple files open?For eg if I open a word doc, the last 1-3 docs that I have worked on all open. why?

I have a brand new macbook pro 15" with latest Lion. Can anyone tell me why, when I open word or preview etc that multiple files open?For eg if I open a word doc, the last 1-3 docs that I have worked previously on all open. Can anyone tell me why?

You have a choice as to whether or not applications in Lion like Word or Preview (or even Safari) save and re-open previous documents or windows... just hold down the option key while quitting a program and when you re-open it you won't get the previous documents or windows when you re-open the application. You can see this by selecting the open program in the menu bar and when holding down the option key the quit function will change to quit and discard open windows. This feature in Lion is referred to as "Resume" and is great if you want to restart an app and return to what you're doing (for example in Safari re-opening existing windows and tabs from your previous session). You still have the option to close individual windows within an app before quitting and they will not re-open when the app is launched again.
This Resume function is not related to saving your work (a word or text document for example). This is handled by Lion's "Auto-Save" and "Versions" functions. See http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html
Hopefully this is the complete answer you're looking for.

Can't open Word .doc in lion

I installed OS Lion yesterday. I cannot open any Word documents saved .doc. I can open docx files. What do I do?

TextEdit found in your Applications folder will open Word documents. I have the same problem. come on Apple try sort it out

How can I open Word docs with Pages?

I just installed the iWorks software because it said it would open Word docs. Now I can't seem to open any Word .doc files I had archived onto CDs, after abandoning my PC.
I've made Pages my default application for opening text, and that didn't help. I just keep getting the error message "The document "X.doc" couldn't be opened." Any ideas?
IMAC Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to Apple Discussions Paul
Pages - the word processing/page layout application in iWork (no "s") - usually doesn't have any problems with opening Word files, but I do believe it can't open any Word files older than version 6. It is also highly unlikely that it would be able to open any from the new 2007 version. If your documents are from a version in between those, they should open.
How are you trying to open them? There are at least three common methods, but, since you say the documents are on a CD, I suggest copying them from the CD to your hard drive first. To open one at a time you can use File > Open (where > means following menu commands with your cursor). To open more than one at a time, select the ones you want by Command- (⌘) clicking the files & then dragging them onto the Pages icon in the Dock or a Finder window or Control- or right-click & choose Pages from Open with in the contextual menu that appears.

Can't open Word docs with Pages 08

Since upgrading to SL I found that I can no longer open Word documents sent to me via email attachments. Can this be remedied? I thought Macs were able to "translate" Word files.
Help!

I did discover I can open Word docs with Text Edit, but it's a multi-step process now. I really don't want to upgrade to iWork 09 and I'm not sure that would solve the problem. I also have to use Quick Time now to open movies in iPhoto. Another multi-step process. I'm not very happy with SL.

Open Word docs with the new Pages?

Pages does not open. I had the new one installed but apparently had the old one still up. How can I open Word docs with the new Pages?

Pages 5 is in your Applications folder.
Pages '09/'08 is in your Applications/iWork folder.
You are alternately opening the wrong versions.
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.01 can not open Pages 5.1 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5.1 files can not be opened in Pages 5.
Anything that is saved to iCloud is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed over 95 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Archive/trash Pages 5, after exporting all Pages 5 files to Pages '09 or Word .docx, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
Peter

Help - Can't open Word for Windows docs because of "Spelling Checker" error

Since updating to the new Pages of iWork 08, I've started having consistent problems opening Word documents sent to me from Windows using colleagues. When I open the .doc in Pages, an error message appears saying "Alert: Couldn't contact Spell Checker." When I dismiss the error message, it immediately pops up again. It is impossible to dismiss the error message long enough to close the document or even to quit Pages, so I have to Force Quit Pages. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem and be able to open Word documents in Pages again? Thanks!

WordService is not a spell checker. It adds various actions to the Services menu, such as changing to smart quotes, changing to lowercase, etc. I've been using it successfully since Pages 1 came out.
I suggest deleting/moving/archiving/something with that CocoAspell file & restart your Mac. It very welll could be the culprit. It's not the current version of these third-party spell checkers that are a problem. The problem seems to be left over bits after a spell checker is removed that is seen when you open a Word document, but the original program isn't found.

Opening Word 97 Dociments in Appleworks

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for