Just seeking a little clarification. Don't think I'm going to like the answer.
I think you will. Pray continue....
I have a Sony Vaio desktop (family computer) and a new MacBookPro laptop
(mine, all mine). My resume is currently on the desktop in Word 2007 (XP)
saved in a 93-2000 compatibility format since when I emailed it to people
they kept emailing me back saying please send only Word attachments. When I
loaded the resume onto the laptop and ran a compatibility check it noted that
the template was not present.
From what I am reading here, I am never going to have compatible templates
from my 2007 (XP) version and my Mac version of Word. Is that correct? So
essentially the representation that I will be able to exchange documents with
my business partners running PCs was false? Or true only to the extent that
they don't use any sort of formatting...
You might be getting a bit tangled with the concepts here.
The format of a Word file is the same on PC Word 2007 and Mac Word 2008
with a couple of exceptions. Each should be happy with the other. You
don't send any kind of template along with your file. A Windows-written
template, should you choose one, should be OK for a starting point on
your Mac. As long as you don't expect macros. Only the terminally naive
include macros in e-mailed documents except by special prior
arrangement, since the recipient's corporate mail server should
quarantine them as dangerous malware.
(grin)
The people who mailed you back were bitten by Mail.app or whatever
e-mail sending program you use, not by Mac Word. There is a checkbox at
the bottom of the choose attachment window in Mail.app labelled "Send
Windows-Friendly Attachments". If you can't find a similar checkbox in
your mail program, zip the Word doc before attaching it.
You may invoke a zipping in Mac OS X Leopard's Finder with a
right-click on your document and choose "compress..." from the
contextual menu that appears. Earlier versions invite you to "Make
Archive" at the same spot
So, to summarise, you should like the answer. The 'representation' is
mostly true. Many of us exchange documents for a living with business
partners running PCs.
You simply have to tell your mailer that the intended recipient is not
as sophisticated as it might expect, and it needs to curb a certain
feature called a resource fork that only serves to confuse the less
fortunate among your business partners computers.
They probably see a small file of the same name alongside the attached
Word file in their mail reader. That's how they unpack the resource
fork. It confuses the hell out of their software.
