ClarisWorks

ClarisWorks was an office suite for the Macintosh published by Claris Software, a software company spun off from Apple. When that company was merged back into Apple later, the suite became AppleWorks (a name also previously used for an Apple II office suite).

File Identification
Early Mac files usually did not have file extensions (file types were determined by MacOS metadata) Creator "", but ClarisWorks/AppleWorks files are sometimes found with .cwk extensions.

Programming libraries

 * libmwaw: library to read MacWrite and ClarisWorks files

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/clarisWorks/

Links

 * Wikipedia article on AppleWorks
 * Discussion on opening ClarisWorks files in OpenOffice
 * Reading ClarisWorks 3 Documents in Mac OS X
 * Parsing Appleworks and Clarisworks file formats
 * Detailed format docs
 * Parser source on GitHub
 * LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats