Translate Microsoft Works 3.0 into OS 10.5.5

Help me if you can. I wrote a book on my old Apple II computer on Microsoft Works 3.0. Is there a program I can use to recreate my book without retyping it onto my newly purchased Mac Book Pro OS 10.5.5? Peace and Love.

There seems to be a lot of "opinion".
As usual, Limnos and Appaloosa have hit it right on the nail,
MacLink Plus:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html
Or, ask for help at your local MUG, if you're in CA, you'll have no shortage of guys with the required kit only too willing to help - they love the challenge.
Also for info, although you can't run it on your new MBP, the old Write Now software used to have an excellent Microsoft Works importer. I used WN at university because my department didn't want to spend on Word, and MacWrite was awful on documents of more than 15 pages (not helped by a room full of overheating Mac 128k and 512k).
Funny, we muse about "back in the day" but it really was slow hard work, I still have my SE, it's painfully slow and so much stuff we take for granted now was just never going to work back then. AppleScript ? hah! not before System 7.5. Printer sharing ? (not network printer) not before OS9. No Quicktime, no colour, no user accounts, and waiting months for Apple kit - I waited over 6 months for my CD300e, and when I ordered a Mac II, it was "Get me a IIsi or IIci, any RAM, any disk" just to help reduce the wait from 4 months to 9 weeks, cost me more than my Mac Pro even with Edu discount. Plus £600 for the 13" monitor, £220 for the keyboard. And the 64MB RAM upgrade a year later was over £2000 alone. It was never "great" back in the day.

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Having recently moved to Mac from Windows I am trying to transfer files from my old machine to my Mac mini. As I have thousands of files in Window format that I hope to use on my Mac I spent the money to purchase a copy of MacLinkPlus V. 15.
Happily when I attempted to translate word processing files created in Word 97 to Appleworks 6.2.9 all went well. But when I attempted to translate database files created in Microsoft Works 4.5 I ran into trouble!
To whit, after "adding" the MS Works database file to MacLink Plus I click on translate but when the translation settings window open there is no AppleWorks 6 database file format to select. I tried selecting AppleWorks 2.1, 3.0 but after the translation is done there is just a bunch of disorganized text in the destination file.
Given that the program claims to support MS Works 4.5 I was at a loss as to why this was happening so I contacted the MacLinkPlus help desk to find out what I should do. Initially they said that MacLinkPlus does not support Microsoft Works 4.5 file translation. But when I checked the link they supplied to supported formats Microsoft Works 4.5 database files were clearly shown as being fully supported.
When I pointed this out to them they next asked if I was sure I had Appleworks on my computer..... What can one say to a question like that, especially when it is asked in broken English?
Does anyone out there have any idea what is going on here? Is there a way to get MacLinkPlus to do what the company says it will do, i.e. translate my Microsoft Works database files to Appleworks 6 format? If not, what would folks suggest as a work around method of getting these database files into the Appleworks 6 database?
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Winston
PS For anyone interested in the quality of support at MacLinkPlus I offer the following message I recieved from their Help Desk:
"MacLinkPlus only support AppleWorks 6 for word processing or spreadsheet files. Because you are dealing with a database file you are only able to choose from those formats. To see the full list of file formats that MacLinkPlus supports, please view this page:"
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html
Note: When I clicked on the above link this is what I found:
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Thanks for the tips I guess that I will try to export the database files in tab delimited format and paste them into a database that I create in Appleworks 6. I can't say that I am looking forward to this, but it would appear I have no choice.
At this point in time I would have to say that my foray into the Mac World has been a most unpleasant experience. In truth when you add this difficulty to the many others I've had with my Mac I have had more computer problems in the past 3 months than in the prior 8 years with Windows.
By the way, I heard back from MacLinkPlus today and they had this to say:
Hi Winston,
The reason you don't have AppleWorks 6 listed as an option in MacLinkPlus, is because when it comes to Databases, MaclinkPlus only supports these formats:
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AppleWorks 6.0 (Read Only)
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So, it is not going to give you AppleWorks 6 as an option because when Dealing with Database files, AppleWorks 6 isnot supported.
So what you can do, is choose either AppleWorks 2 or 3, convert the file.
Then try to use AppleWorks 6 to open it with.
AppleWorks 6 may not recognize such an old file though.
Here is my reply:
Dear Annya,
I must admit that I am still confused regarding all this. In your most recent e-mail you say that MacLinkPlus does not recognise Microsoft Works 4.5 database files but on your website it says that it does.
I tried your work around and Appleworks 6 refused to open the database file translated into Appleworks 2, 3 so it would now appear that I am not going to be able to use MacLinkPlus to translate the files.
While your offer for a refund on the MacLinkPlus was appreciated, I am out a great deal more than the purchase price of MacLinkPlus because of this. Simply put I would never have purchased my Mac mini computer in the first place if my visit to your website had not left me confident that your software would allow me access to my old database files.
To say that I am dissappointed would be quite an understatement and I certainly hope that your company rewrites the material on its own website in an effort to make clear that MacLinkPlus can not translate Microsoft Works database files.
In the mean time, know anybody looking for an almost brand new MacIntosh computer?
With regrets,
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