Symptom
1. In the Finder, double-clicking a document you want to open with AppleWorks results in one of these symptoms:
- An alert box with the message, "The document could not be opened because the application cannot be found." appears.
- An alert box with the message, "There is no application available to open the document." appears.
- The document opens in an application other than AppleWorks 6.
2. Dragging a document onto the AppleWorks 6 application icon results in one of these symptoms:
- The document does not open.
- The document opens in the wrong AppleWorks module (word processing text opens as a spreadsheet for example).
- The document opens unreadable text.
Solution
Follow these steps to import a non-AppleWorks document:
1. Open AppleWorks 6.
2. Choose Open from the File menu.
3. In the window that appears, choose the type of document you are opening from the Document Type pop-up menu. For example, if you want to open a text document in the AppleWorks 6 Word Processing module, choose "Word Processing" from the pop-up menu.
4. Choose the existing file format from the File Format pop-up menu. For example, if you want to open a Microsoft Word 2001 document in AppleWorks 6, choose "Word Mac 98, 2001 document" from the pop-up menu.
5. Select the document you want to open in AppleWorks 6 from the list of files.
6. Click Open.
AppleWorks will try to open the document as you specified in Steps 3 and 4. For best results, be sure to specify both.