FileMaker has a tutorial that tells you how to move these files to Bento, but it’s inelegant. Regrettably there’s no path nearly so easy for your AppleWorks database files. Similarly, for the six people who created and still keep AppleWorks presentation files, you can use this trick to open them in Keynote. Do the same thing with any AppleWorks spreadsheet files except choose Numbers instead. Click the Change All button and now all your AppleWorks word processing documents will open in Pages. Select an AppleWorks word-processing file in the Finder, press Command-I to bring up the Info window, click on the Open With pop-up menu, and choose Pages from the list that appears. If you have a copy of iWork, you can easily open your word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation files in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote respectively. So, what to do with those AppleWorks documents? If you want to use a Mac running Lion, your time has run out. And yes, I mean you die-hard AppleWorks users. In recent Mac 911 entries I’ve looked forward to what will and won’t work with Lion (and swore I’d stop doing it).
