Can you answer this computer question? (ClarisWorks on PC)

Factual Questions
1

Many years ago, I used the Macintosh at work with ClarisWorks as the Word processor.
Then we went over to PC’s, but we were able to use ClarisWorks under Windows.
So I’ve got lots of these files at home (I work from home sometimes, plus I typed many of my own files in that format).

Now my home PC that also had ClarisWorks recently crashed. :eek: (The techie thinks I need a new motherboard.)
I’d done a full backup to another PC :cool: , so I have all the files.
But my backup PC doesn’t have ClarisWorks, so I can’t access the files.
I had a look on Amazon, but couldn’t see ClarisWorks for sale.

Am I stuffed?
Can you help?

2

This may not be what you want to hear but still:

(A Brief History Of Claris Works)

Haven’t been able to check it out yet but maybe Open Office will support Clarisworks file formats?

3

Thanks for that. :slight_smile:

I tried using Microsoft Office 2007 to open ClarisWorks files (using the . filetype) and it seems to recover 95%+ of the data.

4

That sounds pretty good as ‘2007’ has a reputation of being unable to handle previous Microsoft file formats without considerable jiggery-pokery.
An older version (XP/2003) might be able to recover the lot?

5

Thanks - I’ll see if I can get hold of that version. :slight_smile:

6

I have DataViz MacLink Plus which is a format-converter (you’re probably familiar with it if you were on MacOS for very long). It handles ClarisWorks for Windows, versions 1-5 it looks like.

If you wish, and assuming confidentiality is not a concern in the legal sense of the word & etc, I’ll convert them for you.

7

That’s really kind of you! :smiley:

Actually I am having success with telling Word 2007 to open these files as ‘recover text’ format.
Since most of them are simple text files, only a few characters are not translated correctly.

But if I run into trouble, I will ask you for help.