Editing AppleWorks (section)

===Discontinuation===
In August 2007, Apple declared AppleWorks "[[End-of-life product|end of life]]" and stated that they would no longer sell the package.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/rip-appleworks/|title=RIP AppleWorks|last=Jade|first=Charles|date=August 15, 2007|work=Ars Technica|access-date=December 3, 2017|language=en-us}}</ref> The [[iWork]] package, which includes a word processing program, a spreadsheet, and a presentation graphics program, is intended to be its replacement. While more [[feature-rich]], iWork still lacks some of the modules and the tight integration of AppleWorks. AppleWorks will not run on any versions of Mac OS X later than [[Mac OS X Snow Leopard|Snow Leopard]] because it is compiled for the [[PowerPC]] CPU architecture.<ref name="breen2013">Christopher Breen, [http://www.macworld.com/article/1160843/last_appleworks.html "Last call for AppleWorks users"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210090453/http://www.macworld.com/article/1160843/last_appleworks.html |date=February 10, 2013 }}, ''Macworld'', June 29, 2011 (accessed Feb 3, 2013)</ref>

AppleWorks word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files can be opened in earlier versions of iWork applications Pages, Numbers, and Keynote respectively, but not since 2013. [[Collabora Online]], [[LibreOffice]] or [[Apache OpenOffice]] can open AppleWorks word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files. A script exists for batch converting Appleworks (.cwk) files to [[MS Word]] (.docx) format (usable by Pages) using the command-line interface for LibreOffice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Randy |title=Convert Appleworks to MS Word |url=https://axon.cs.byu.edu/~randy/cwk2docx.html |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=byu.edu}}</ref> There is no Apple-supplied application to open AppleWorks database, painting, or drawing files without converting them to a different format.<ref name="breen2013" />  [[EazyDraw|EazyDraw Retro]] supports the import of the AppleWorks drawing formats. This software runs on Mojave and older.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eazydraw.com/support.htm|title=EazyDraw Support|website=EazyDraw.com|access-date=December 3, 2017}}</ref> [[AppleWorks User Group]] continues support,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awug.org/|title=AppleWorks Users Group (AWUG), iWork Users Group (iWUG)|website=awug.org|access-date=December 3, 2017}}</ref> and migrating away from AppleWorks is possible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html|title=Abandoning AppleWorks|website=wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715011212/http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html|archive-date=July 15, 2011|access-date=December 3, 2017}}</ref>

Several of the core engineers behind ClarisWorks left to form [[Gobe Software]] whose main product, GoBe Productive, would be released on [[BeOS]], Windows, and [[Linux]].