email attachment

[andy]

I just attached a word doc (office 08, mac) to an email. My colleague cannot open it and asked if it is a Vista program.

What gives?

Thanks, Andy

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Both WinOffice 2007 and MacOffice 2008 use a new XML-based file format
(.docx, ..xlsx, etc) by default. A lot of people have confused WinOffice
2007 with Vista, so that probably explains your colleague's comment.

Depending on what version your colleague uses, there's an update they
can install to allow older versions to read the new file formats.

Or, you can do a Save As and select Word 97-2004 format. You can use
this by default by changing the setting in Word | Preferences | Save.

 

[John McGhie]

Chances are you sent it in BinHex. Re-send it in AppleDouble to MIME
encoding.

If you are using Apple Mail, the default encoding is one that the majority
of the computers in the world cannot read ‹ not a really clever choice, I
would have thought

Change it to send "Windows friendly attachments" and it will work the way it
should.

If you are using Entourage, choose to append file extensions and send in
either MIME or AppleDouble.

MIME is a safer choice: anything can read that!

Cheers

I just attached a word doc (office 08, mac) to an email. My colleague cannot
open it and asked if it is a Vista program.

What gives?

Thanks, Andy

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