Starting school year 2009-2010 District 62 will no longer support Appleworks. I know this will be painful for some users, but for us to continue to move forward with new projects we have to cut loose old & outdated solutions. Appleworks falls into that category.
While some people still use Appleworks, it will not be available on district computers starting Fall ’09. The Mothership Apple does not support it. See their official page here for more information: AppleWorks Support
Those of you that still have AppleWorks documents, do not fear. District 62 has MicroSoft Office & Apple iWork. Below is a chart on how to use these software solutions to open your AppleWorks documents. Going forward please use Office to create new documents, and remember to save your AppleWorks stuff in either Office or iWork.
AppleWorks………..New Solution
Word Processing…..Open & Save in MicroSoft Word
Spreadsheet………….Open & Save in Apple Numbers (can export to Excel)
Database………………Save as an ASCII file in AppleWorks, open in FileMaker
Draw/Paint…………..Save as a jpeg in AppleWorks
I know this is going to hurt someone somewhere, and for that I am sorry. Apple’s support for this dried up around 2002 and we cannot continue to go forward while trying to support legacy software when we have better solutions available.
I’ve been saying this for two years–since I moved in to this position, and my predecessors were saying it before me. I’m just going to link to this post, Seth, because it completely captures what I’ve been saying!
Thanks!