Mac to Windows Conversions

[Asa Monsey]

Hi,

I hope someone can help.

I need to convert several hundred Mac Word 98 documents
to Windows format. When we try to open the raw documents
in Office XP, they just come up gibberish. If we open
them on the Mac and save them as text or html, they will
open on the Windows box.

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert these
documents en mass? This will save a great deal of labor.

Thanks,
Asa Monsey

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi,

I hope someone can help.

I need to convert several hundred Mac Word 98 documents
to Windows format. When we try to open the raw documents
in Office XP, they just come up gibberish. If we open
them on the Mac and save them as text or html, they will
open on the Windows box.

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert these
documents en mass? This will save a great deal of labor.

Yer winders box is busted. I'm pretty sure it should read Mac Word 98.

If I got that wrong, open in Word v.X and save as Word document.
For several hundred, I'd be looking seriously at an Applescript.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Hi,

I hope someone can help.

I need to convert several hundred Mac Word 98 documents
to Windows format. When we try to open the raw documents
in Office XP, they just come up gibberish. If we open
them on the Mac and save them as text or html, they will
open on the Windows box.

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert these
documents en mass? This will save a great deal of labor.

MacWord98 and WinWord02 use the exact same file format, so there
isn't any conversion required. Sounds like your Windows box may be
having problems. Make sure that WinOffice has been updated.

How are you getting the files from one machine to the other? If
you're emailing them, it's probably worth compressing the files with
DropZip, ZipIt or DropStuff (there's a free Stuffit Expander for
Windows at Aladdin's web site). For some reason, mail servers,
especially Windows mail servers, have a hard time with attachments
from Macs. Make sure that you send the attachments formatted as
AppleDouble or MIME/Base64.

Or better, put them on a ftp site and download them, or burn a CD
and sneaker-net them.

While extensions aren't necessary, many Windows users don't know how
to set their machine to read files that don't have extensions - if
you haven't put ".doc" at the end of your filename, try adding it.