Will Appleworks open up old Claris documents?

I recently upgraded from a B&W G3 to a new iMac G5 iSight. I have a bunch of signs that I had made using ClarisWorks for my business. i.e. Closed Thanksgiving, Holiday Hours, etc. The signs have artwork and text.
If I purchase AppleWorks will I be able to edit and continue to use these signs? I don't have an app on the new iMac that will open them. I have Office:mac on my machine but I just can't get the hang of mixing text and images with it.
Thanks.
iMac G5 iSight 20, 1.5G RAM, 250G HD Mac OS X (10.4.3)
iMac G5 iSight 20, 1.5G RAM, 250G HD Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Actually, you do have Appleworks. It's just not installed, because you got all the different language versions and it's up to you to choose which you want. If you look in the bundled software on your iMac discs for "Appleworks Languages" you can choose the one you want to install.
Hopefully you'll be able to open your clarisworks files. Be sure they show the .cwk extension. However, the current version of appleworks (6.2.9) is very inconsistent about when it will open old files and when it won't. If you have problems, post back for the workarounds.

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