Engineering: AppleWorks to Word

I have written a book in AppleWorks (Mac OS 9.2), which my publisher wants in Microsoft Word. I have Microsoft Office 2001. Is there any software which will enable me to transfer my manuscript without losing all the notes?Don Chapman

JS: Microsoft Word can open files created in AppleWorks 5 and 6 and save them as Word documents, though I think Office 2001 only handles AppleWorks 5 files. This should preserve footnotes. Otherwise, the general answer is to save files in RTF (rich text format), which most word processors can handle. (Microsoft developed RTF to make it easier to move files between PCs and Macs.) In principle, RTF can handle footnotes, but this doesn't mean every word-processing program will actually pick them up. If all else fails, Panergy Software's icWord converts ClarisWorks and AppleWorks files to Word for $19.95 (£9.85). For the future, note that both AppleWorks and Mac OS 9 are now obsolete, and neither is compatible with current Intel-based Mac hardware running OS X. You don't have to keep up with the leading edge, but you're falling off the trailing edge.

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