Unable to save doc's created in OSX on Windows

[ePocket]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel If I create a document in "Office:mac2008 Business Edition" version:12.2.4 no one else in my organisation can save the document on their PC's. (I save it in print layout view)

They use winNT or Win7 or WinVista. All with "MS office Proffesional Plus 2007".

The only way is for them to open the document and save it as a 97-2003 doc, with new name.
But some of the layout is lost.

Why can't I just transfer the document in it's original format between the platforms?

 

[Michael Vilain]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

If I create a document in "Office:mac2008 Business Edition"
version:12.2.4 no one else in my organisation can save the document on their
PC's. (I save it in print layout view) <br><br>They use winNT or Win7 or
WinVista. All with &quot;MS office Proffesional Plus 2007&quot;. <br><br>The
only way is for them to open the document and save it as a 97-2003 doc, with
new name. <br>
But some of the layout is lost. <br><br>Why can't I just transfer the
document in it's original format between the platforms?

'Cause Microsoft decided you must pay for using a Macintosh?

Seriously, if transfer between others is a key feature you require for
Office documents, why not upload them to Google Documents and share them
amongst your group. They should be shareable in that format. If you
are using specific features that aren't transferable between Office 2008
and 2007, then you'll have to buy Windows 7 and Office 2007 and run them
on a Windows hypervisor under MacOS X (Fusion or Parallels). You might
luck out and be able to run Crossover which will allow you to just buy
Windows Office 2007.

Seems an expensive lesson. Why not just set the default format to
Office 2003 and save all your MacOS documents in that format?

 

[pjonesCET]

The major problem with transfering Documents is Not using Microsoft Friendly Fonts and the fact that Mac and PC use different system for printing and viewing fonts.

Mac uses 72DPI system while Widozes usually uses 96DPI

so you have to use the formula 72/96 (or 3/4) if you set a font to 12 pt on Mac it shows up as 16pt on PC and if you type something on PC in 12 to go to Mac it it will appear as 8 point on the Mac. There is no happy medium. So if your intended audience is for the oter platform you have to adjust your font sizes accordingly.

Use Ariel as opposed to Hevetica. use Courier Ne as opsed to Courier, ot times Ne instead of Times and so on

In Excel Charts use Verdana.

Take into consideration the audience you write. The ideal way to send a document. is send the original but the send a PDF as well. You can Make a PDF from the print menu (click on PDF) or you can download from Code-poetry a print Driver called CUPS-PDF. when installed just choos it as your printer and it saves directly into a special folder within seconds or less for a document up to about 20 pages or so. and it over comes a 15 year old problem from adobe of splitting a document in to multiple PDF if the document has Page or section, or Column Breaks. If you need to tweak it you can always get if you don't have bucks to get Acrobat, PDFPen for $69 or $99 for Pro version.

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

Basically, because your File Server is badly set up. It may not be
correctly handling the "Resource Fork" that your Mac creates.

It should, it's just a setting in the Server registry: speak to your Server
Administrator (tell him that Mac software does not use the resource fork any
longer, and he can simply discard them...)

Either that, or the permissions on your User Login to the server do not
allow other users to delete the file. For them to be able to re-save a
file, they need to be able to delete the original. Again, it's a server
issue. By saving to a different file type, they are not attempting to
delete the original.

If they were to change the file name, they could save to .docx. If they
were to switch on "Always create backup file" in their Word preferences,
they would be able to save to .docx. Again, speak to your IT people.

I warn you not to put the file anywhere near Google Docs: that way lies
insanity and death: Google docs cannot handle .docx properly. Similarly,
setting your default format to .doc will indeed lose data going to Office
2007, which is a .docx application.

I don't know what Phillip has been smoking, but it's not likely to be good
for him, and it's probably illegal in the state he resides in This has
nothing to do with the supposed screen resolution difference between Windows
and Mac, because THAT DOES NOT EXIST!!

Phillip, we have been trying to tell you for ten years that there is no
difference between the screen resolution of a Mac and a Windows box: both
use a variable screen resolution that the operating system determines when
it sees how big the screen is. PLEASE stop misleading people with that
stuff, which has not applied to anything since Mac OS 8 or thereabouts.

It's 20-year-old information that is now WRONG!

The screen resolution on this Mac as I write is about 98 pixels per inch
(big screen...) but it varies depending on the magnification I set.

Yes, the shape of characters in old bit-mapped fonts will be different
between Windows and Mac fonts. But the screen resolution is the same:
unknown, and variable, on both kinds of computer.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
If I create a document in "Office:mac2008 Business Edition" version:12.2.4 no
one else in my organisation can save the document on their PC's. (I save it in
print layout view)

They use winNT or Win7 or WinVista. All with "MS office Proffesional Plus
2007".

The only way is for them to open the document and save it as a 97-2003 doc,
with new name.
But some of the layout is lost.

Why can't I just transfer the document in it's original format between the
platforms?

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