Patty Winter said:
Actually, you got the wrong memo.
I exchange .doc and .docx files with PC users all the time. Yes,
things can go wrong in that process, but your blanket statement
is not true.
To the OP: try changing in your email program the encoding you
use to send the files. There was a just a thread about that in
one of the Mac newsgroups recently.
Patty
Actually, whenever I had to send files from my Mac to someone using a
PC, they *always* had problems reading the .docx file but never the .doc
file. I set Apple's Mail to do "windows-friendly attachments" but still
it didn't work. Zip-ing a .docx file didn't work either. Other Mac
users who were sending articles into our journal also had this problem
until they switched to sending .doc files. So, whatever memo you're
reading Patty doesn't seem to have circulated in my Universe. Not too
surprising.
Then Google Docs came out and I stopped trying to send Word documents
altogether. The documents uploaded there could be shared without issue
between my editor and me.
