Mac Office 2001 & PC Office 2000 Problems

[Grand Ave]

We have a network at our school with PC's and Mac's
attached. We are sharing office files. There is no
problem opening office files on the PC as long as the
extensions are there. But after a file is opened on the
PC the Mac doesn't seem to recognize it well. It can only
be opened from the program (word, excel) and not from a
file list. We had Mac Office 98 but upgraded to 2001
hoping this would help but it still does not recognize
it. Also some of the files get turned into "read only"
when trying to open them on the Mac. Can anyone help? We
are thinking of upgrading to Office v.X but don't know if
this will solve the problem or not.

 

[Richard Harris]

You're using Office 2001 on Mac OS 9 ? If so look in the PC Exchange control
panel and make sure .doc's, .xls and .ppt are associated with Office 2001

Rich

 

[Guest]

Yes we are using Mac OS 9 and the extensions are
associated correctly.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Have you rebuilt the desktop on the Macs lately? Try running basic
maintenance on them before you change programs. This doesn't really sound
like a Word problem.

Just by the way--if thinking of upgrading now, possibly better to wait to
upgrade to Office 2004, which should be out by the summer, and is rumored to
be far improved over Office X. Also, upgrading to Office X or 2004 will
require upgrading to Panther/OS X, which will require upgrading other
software, and might require whole new computers, as OS X does far better
with lots of memory.... Don't make that decision in a hurry b/c Word 2001
isn't behaving.

DM