Tips on how to open old ClarisWorks and MS Word files?

[Todd's keyboard]

I've recovered some old ClarisWorks and and MS Word documents that I wrote in 1989 through the early '90s. They are mostly text, with a little bit of information cut and pasted in from a Hypercard data base embedded in each file.

While I can open the files, there are lots of gibberish characters and the sequence of the text is not in order. I've tried using MS Word 2004, Open Office, and Text-Edit Plus.

Any thoughts on how I might be able to open these files in a more readable format?

thanks, Todd's jumbled keyboard