I've upgraded from a Mac G4 10.4.11 to a Mini Mac El Capitan. Is there anything out there like Appleworks 5 or 6 that will work with El Capitan? Why Apple did away with Appleworks was crazy. That was the best app. of all. I need something like it. thanks
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I don't see iworks on my hard drive. with appleworks I used to place different things on the drawing page, scale it, move it around where I wanted and then print it. would like to do the same with El Capitan
You can also download Sheepshaver from E-Maculation and run Appleworks as is. Works great.
I found that LibreOffice liked to take over as the default application for all types of files it can handle. I deleted it after I got what I wanted from it.
Appleworks 6.2.9 running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels for use in El Capitan
Installing Snow Leopard Server into Parallels for DUMMIES:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...llels-7-in-lion.1365439/page-23#post-17285039
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I bought that EasyDraw and would like to say "Don't Waste Your Money". It's 375 pages long ( wasted a lot of ink) and need a Collage degree to figure it out.
OP:
Could you tell us WHICH KIND of AppleWorks files you are trying to open?
Are they word processing, database, graphics, spreadsheet?
Have you tried LibreOffice, as I suggested above in reply #7 ??
Could you post one of the files you can't open, and give others a crack at it?
Could you tell us WHICH KIND of AppleWorks files you are trying to open?
Are they word processing, database, graphics, spreadsheet?
Have you tried LibreOffice, as I suggested above in reply #7 ??
Could you post one of the files you can't open, and give others a crack at it?
[doublepost=1488500001][/doublepost]It's hard for me to explain what I was doing. I could take snap shots say of different paragraphs place them in an Appleworks app how ever I wanted them and then print them for my own files. I tried to download that LibreOffice, but have been unsuccessful doing so. will try again. I've had a lot of people saying they would pay if it came back, as I would myself. Why can't someone bring it back and keep it as simple as it was?
I agree that it was a really good application. If I recall correctly you could associate data easily between the different types of documents. I remember using the slick page layout feature.
To download LibreOffice, go here:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
You want LibreOffice 5.3.0, the "Mac OS X x86_64" version (in the popup).
Click download. If you get dumped to another (non-download) page, go back and try again.
You wrote:
"Why can't someone bring it back and keep it as simple as it was?"
I agree. I liked it "the way it was".
But sadly, it won't be coming back.
One now has to find… other ways…
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
You want LibreOffice 5.3.0, the "Mac OS X x86_64" version (in the popup).
Click download. If you get dumped to another (non-download) page, go back and try again.
You wrote:
"Why can't someone bring it back and keep it as simple as it was?"
I agree. I liked it "the way it was".
But sadly, it won't be coming back.
One now has to find… other ways…
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