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For us Mac users it would be very helpful if it was possible to open AppleWorks/ClarisWorks files in OOo. (The program changed name.) There are many possibilities to open and save in different formats in OOo, but it seems none of the most popular Mac formats are there. MS Word for Mac was a different format than on Windows quite long (I think untill Office 98), and Claris MacWrite II and Pro was very popular on the Mac for many years. And Claris FileMaker (Pro) for databases. But the most important one is ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, wich allmost everybody used (since it used to be shipped with the computers) untill very recently. The text documents, as well as the spreadsheat, database and graphics documents would be very sensible to be able to open in OOo.
Sep 23, 2012 You can't make a file compatible with a different application just by changing the filename extension. You either need to get hold of a converter or ask the person who sent you the file to open it again in ClarisWorks at their end and save it as a Microsoft Word for PC document. The file extension CWK stands for ClarisWorks, a widely-usedword processing program and productivity suite for Mac and Windows in the mid-1990s. Insert the install CD-ROM into your computer's CD drive. The Recover Text Converter works for Microsoft Word documents and any other documents the user has.
The problem now is that AppleWorks only excists in one version with updates for OS X before it was discontinued, so those of us that didn't change to OS X fast enough never had it. Since newer Intel Macs can no longer run older apps (so called 'Classic' MacOS 7-9.2 programs) there is no possibility to read these old files with the older versions of AppleWorks or ClarisWorks they were made with either. So then the only possibility is to buy MS Office, iWorks or go pirate and get hold of AppleWorks 6.x.x. I would love to avoid those options...
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Below, you can find answers to the following questions:
- What is the .cwk file?
- Which program can create the .cwk file?
- Where can you find a description of the .cwk format?
- What can convert .cwk files to a different format?
- Which MIME-type is associated with the .cwk extension?
ClarisWorks Document
CWK file is a ClarisWorks Document. ClarisWorks is an integrated office application, which provides word processing, graphics, illustration, spreadsheet, charting/graphing, presentation and database capabilities.
Category: Document files
Application:AppleWorks
Mime-type: application/clarisworks
Magic string (ASCII): -
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Claris on Wikipedia
Data Interchange Format
Lotus Word Pro Document
Portable Document Format
Revisable-Form Text
Ami Pro Document
Other types of files may also use the .cwk file extension. If you have helpful information about .cwk extension, write to us!
Is it possible that the filename extension is misspelled?
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The .cwk filename extension is often given incorrectly!
According to the searches on our site, these misspellings were the most common in the past year:
cak (1), xwk (1), swk (1), cwm (1), cw (1), ckw (1), cdk (1), wck (1), fwk (1), cwl (1), csk (1), ck (1)
Can't open a .cwk file?
If you want to open a .cwk file on your computer, you just need to have the appropriate program installed. If the .cwk association isn't set correctly, you may receive the following error message:
Windows can't open this file:
File: example.cwk
To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it. Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs that are installed on your computer.
File: example.cwk
To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it. Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs that are installed on your computer.
To change file associations:
- Right-click a file with the extension whose association you want to change, and then click Open With.
- In the Open With dialog box, click the program whith which you want the file to open, or click Browse to locate the program that you want.
- Select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box.
Supported operating systems
Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, iOS, Android
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