Document Converter

As someone who bought a MacPlus in 1985 and diligently copied my files year by year - floppy to Zip, Zip to CD-R, CD-R to HD, HD to SSD - I was so happy to read documents that were locked to me at various points over the past 33 years. The move from OS 6,7,8 and 9 to OSX (now called MacOS), ClarisWorks to AppleWorks, the demise of MacLinkPlus translators, AppleWorks to iWork . . . Document Converter opened them all apart from a few that were…

— KWinUK2011

I highly recommend this app. I converted 646 old Appleworks files in less than 10 minutes. Here’s how: 1. Locate all .cwk files using Spotlight. 2. Choose the export options in the software (.doc, .xls, etc.,) I set the destination path to be the same as the source, and chose to maintain creation and modification dates. 3. Drag and drop the Spotlight search findings into the software and click Export All. In a couple of minutes it was finish…

— More P.

So I have tons of old files going back to 1987. I have tried over the years (once in 2004, once in 2009) to use DataViz MacLink Plus to migrate the files. The results were spotty and I lost the original creation date of the files when it upgraded. I used Document converter to convert a bunch of old Office files. It handled Word and Excel incredibly well. It had trouble now and then with Powerpoint losing formatting on idiosycratic graphics.…

— Philotheos1

I had hundreds of Clarisworks files from on my Mac - a number from a company I used to manage - and culdn't read them. More to the point, I couldn't pass them on to others who needed to review them. Documeent Converter was a life-saver. I added ".cwk" to each file name (tedious, but effective), dragged them in batches into Document Converter, set to retain the original creation and modification date, and it did the conversoins in seconds. It…

— Logy R.

I have years worth of AppleWorks and ClarisWorks files that I need access to from time to time. Before discovering Document Converter, I had to either 1) have a 10.6 partition on my Mac to boot into, then copy and paste the contents of the opened CW file into a MS Word document, save it on a flash drive, then reboot back into OS X 10.10 to keep working, or 2) keep an older dedicated Mac running 10.6 to access the CW file (then copy, paste).…

— This R.

I can’t believe that it has got to version 1.2 without a review, there must be millions of Claris and AppleWorks docs mouldering out there. I have loads, going back to CW 0.98 beta I’d given up on and this does the trick. I doubted if it would deal with composite files with embedded spreadsheets or databases, but they suggesed that I send them some files and they came back almost immediately converted in a choice of formats. Typography seems…

— C C.

I have been running around in circles for years trying to develop work arounds for my father to save onto AppleWorks documents that he created years ago. Like to drive me crazy that he would not update OS X just to preseve his documents. A 2008 MacBook stuck in Leopard. Upgraded to El Capitan, updated all apps, installed Office 2016, Upgraded the drive to 500 GB and RAM from 2 GB to 8 GB then realized I had not done anything for the AppleWor…

— JoBoBike

I have hundreds of documents that are inaccessible because they're in an old and outlawed version of Word. It's hard to believe that Microsoft won't let us read our own documents that are only a few years old (well, OK, almost 20, but still...). I couldn't get other converters and workarounds to work - the closest was opening them individually in TextEdit and saving them, losing all the formatting and gaining some extraneous characters in th…

— Viewfromafar

I have a simple comment if you are wondering whether or not to get this app: Get it! You can rely on it to work properly and I am sure you will enjoy the simple and effective user interface. Document Converter is a well-built app that does what you expect without any frills or complicated steps. The icon is also well done and looks great in the Dock, which to me counts for something in these days of sometimes-horrible icons. Thank you RootRi…

— kaliko

While I purchased this app about a year ago to convert old Word 1, WriteNow, and Claris Works files and it has done fantastically with all of those, I have also found that it does a far better job of converting NeoOffice/Open Office .odt and .ott files than saving them as .docx in NeoOffice and opening them in Word does. It is superior to what the performance of my no-longer-suported DataViz MacLink Plus was and is so reasonably priced that…

— Grabauski

As someone who bought a MacPlus in 1985 and diligently copied my files year by year - floppy to Zip, Zip to CD-R, CD-R to HD, HD to SSD - I was so happy to read documents that were locked to me at various points over the past 33 years. The move from OS 6,7,8 and 9 to OSX (now called MacOS), ClarisWorks to AppleWorks, the demise of MacLinkPlus translators, AppleWorks to iWork . . . Document Converter opened them all apart from a few that were…

— KWinUK2011

I highly recommend this app. I converted 646 old Appleworks files in less than 10 minutes. Here’s how: 1. Locate all .cwk files using Spotlight. 2. Choose the export options in the software (.doc, .xls, etc.,) I set the destination path to be the same as the source, and chose to maintain creation and modification dates. 3. Drag and drop the Spotlight search findings into the software and click Export All. In a couple of minutes it was finish…

— More P.

So I have tons of old files going back to 1987. I have tried over the years (once in 2004, once in 2009) to use DataViz MacLink Plus to migrate the files. The results were spotty and I lost the original creation date of the files when it upgraded. I used Document converter to convert a bunch of old Office files. It handled Word and Excel incredibly well. It had trouble now and then with Powerpoint losing formatting on idiosycratic graphics.…

— Philotheos1

I had hundreds of Clarisworks files from on my Mac - a number from a company I used to manage - and culdn't read them. More to the point, I couldn't pass them on to others who needed to review them. Documeent Converter was a life-saver. I added ".cwk" to each file name (tedious, but effective), dragged them in batches into Document Converter, set to retain the original creation and modification date, and it did the conversoins in seconds. It…

— Logy R.

I have years worth of AppleWorks and ClarisWorks files that I need access to from time to time. Before discovering Document Converter, I had to either 1) have a 10.6 partition on my Mac to boot into, then copy and paste the contents of the opened CW file into a MS Word document, save it on a flash drive, then reboot back into OS X 10.10 to keep working, or 2) keep an older dedicated Mac running 10.6 to access the CW file (then copy, paste).…

— This R.

I can’t believe that it has got to version 1.2 without a review, there must be millions of Claris and AppleWorks docs mouldering out there. I have loads, going back to CW 0.98 beta I’d given up on and this does the trick. I doubted if it would deal with composite files with embedded spreadsheets or databases, but they suggesed that I send them some files and they came back almost immediately converted in a choice of formats. Typography seems…

— C C.

I have been running around in circles for years trying to develop work arounds for my father to save onto AppleWorks documents that he created years ago. Like to drive me crazy that he would not update OS X just to preseve his documents. A 2008 MacBook stuck in Leopard. Upgraded to El Capitan, updated all apps, installed Office 2016, Upgraded the drive to 500 GB and RAM from 2 GB to 8 GB then realized I had not done anything for the AppleWor…

— JoBoBike

I have hundreds of documents that are inaccessible because they're in an old and outlawed version of Word. It's hard to believe that Microsoft won't let us read our own documents that are only a few years old (well, OK, almost 20, but still...). I couldn't get other converters and workarounds to work - the closest was opening them individually in TextEdit and saving them, losing all the formatting and gaining some extraneous characters in th…

— Viewfromafar

I have a simple comment if you are wondering whether or not to get this app: Get it! You can rely on it to work properly and I am sure you will enjoy the simple and effective user interface. Document Converter is a well-built app that does what you expect without any frills or complicated steps. The icon is also well done and looks great in the Dock, which to me counts for something in these days of sometimes-horrible icons. Thank you RootRi…

— kaliko

While I purchased this app about a year ago to convert old Word 1, WriteNow, and Claris Works files and it has done fantastically with all of those, I have also found that it does a far better job of converting NeoOffice/Open Office .odt and .ott files than saving them as .docx in NeoOffice and opening them in Word does. It is superior to what the performance of my no-longer-suported DataViz MacLink Plus was and is so reasonably priced that…

— Grabauski

As someone who bought a MacPlus in 1985 and diligently copied my files year by year - floppy to Zip, Zip to CD-R, CD-R to HD, HD to SSD - I was so happy to read documents that were locked to me at various points over the past 33 years. The move from OS 6,7,8 and 9 to OSX (now called MacOS), ClarisWorks to AppleWorks, the demise of MacLinkPlus translators, AppleWorks to iWork . . . Document Converter opened them all apart from a few that were…

— KWinUK2011

I highly recommend this app. I converted 646 old Appleworks files in less than 10 minutes. Here’s how: 1. Locate all .cwk files using Spotlight. 2. Choose the export options in the software (.doc, .xls, etc.,) I set the destination path to be the same as the source, and chose to maintain creation and modification dates. 3. Drag and drop the Spotlight search findings into the software and click Export All. In a couple of minutes it was finish…

— More P.

So I have tons of old files going back to 1987. I have tried over the years (once in 2004, once in 2009) to use DataViz MacLink Plus to migrate the files. The results were spotty and I lost the original creation date of the files when it upgraded. I used Document converter to convert a bunch of old Office files. It handled Word and Excel incredibly well. It had trouble now and then with Powerpoint losing formatting on idiosycratic graphics.…

— Philotheos1

I had hundreds of Clarisworks files from on my Mac - a number from a company I used to manage - and culdn't read them. More to the point, I couldn't pass them on to others who needed to review them. Documeent Converter was a life-saver. I added ".cwk" to each file name (tedious, but effective), dragged them in batches into Document Converter, set to retain the original creation and modification date, and it did the conversoins in seconds. It…

— Logy R.

I have years worth of AppleWorks and ClarisWorks files that I need access to from time to time. Before discovering Document Converter, I had to either 1) have a 10.6 partition on my Mac to boot into, then copy and paste the contents of the opened CW file into a MS Word document, save it on a flash drive, then reboot back into OS X 10.10 to keep working, or 2) keep an older dedicated Mac running 10.6 to access the CW file (then copy, paste).…

— This R.

I can’t believe that it has got to version 1.2 without a review, there must be millions of Claris and AppleWorks docs mouldering out there. I have loads, going back to CW 0.98 beta I’d given up on and this does the trick. I doubted if it would deal with composite files with embedded spreadsheets or databases, but they suggesed that I send them some files and they came back almost immediately converted in a choice of formats. Typography seems…

— C C.

I have been running around in circles for years trying to develop work arounds for my father to save onto AppleWorks documents that he created years ago. Like to drive me crazy that he would not update OS X just to preseve his documents. A 2008 MacBook stuck in Leopard. Upgraded to El Capitan, updated all apps, installed Office 2016, Upgraded the drive to 500 GB and RAM from 2 GB to 8 GB then realized I had not done anything for the AppleWor…

— JoBoBike

I have hundreds of documents that are inaccessible because they're in an old and outlawed version of Word. It's hard to believe that Microsoft won't let us read our own documents that are only a few years old (well, OK, almost 20, but still...). I couldn't get other converters and workarounds to work - the closest was opening them individually in TextEdit and saving them, losing all the formatting and gaining some extraneous characters in th…

— Viewfromafar

I have a simple comment if you are wondering whether or not to get this app: Get it! You can rely on it to work properly and I am sure you will enjoy the simple and effective user interface. Document Converter is a well-built app that does what you expect without any frills or complicated steps. The icon is also well done and looks great in the Dock, which to me counts for something in these days of sometimes-horrible icons. Thank you RootRi…

— kaliko

While I purchased this app about a year ago to convert old Word 1, WriteNow, and Claris Works files and it has done fantastically with all of those, I have also found that it does a far better job of converting NeoOffice/Open Office .odt and .ott files than saving them as .docx in NeoOffice and opening them in Word does. It is superior to what the performance of my no-longer-suported DataViz MacLink Plus was and is so reasonably priced that…

— Grabauski