Mac to PC MS Word File Transfer

[richamente]

My correspondent has a PC with a 2002 version of MS Office. She is
unable to open MS Word files I email from my Mac OS 10.4.10 and MS
Office X, with MS Word 10.1.7. I have no problem opening her Word
files. As a test, I did a Reply on one of her emails with a Word
attachment and sent it back to her. She was able to open it. I did the
same thing after opening the Word file, then closing it without saving
and sent it back. She could not open it. Thus, the reformatting done
by Word in my Mac created a Word file that she could not translate on
her PC. What's she missing; a converter of some kind that didn't come
with her version of MS Office? What can she do to resolve the problem?
BTW, we exchange text files now in rtf format, but that's a pain for
me.

Thanks,

Richard

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I did the same thing after opening the Word file, then closing it
without saving and sent it back. She could not open it. Thus, the
reformatting done by Word in my Mac created a Word file that she could
not translate on her PC.

Uh, no...

Since you didn't save it, it has nothing to do with Word.

Make sure your email client is set to send the file encoded in
AppleDouble or MIME/Base64 format.

Some Windows-based email servers munge those files - in that case,
zipping the file (i.e., Make Archive) usually works.

Also, make sure she's not trying to open the Resource fork of the file
(MacOS creates both a data fork and a resource fork - it's invisible in
the Finder, but Win users may see the filename, preceded by a "." listed
first in their file list).