P.C.s cant open mac office documents

[Guest]

Hi
What setting do I need to change to allow P.C. users to open mac office
word documents I send to them? At the moment they can't open them

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi,

What setting do I need to change to allow P.C. users to open mac office
word documents I send to them? At the moment they can't open them

Try adding the .doc extension if the documents don;t already have it.


Corentin

 

[Tim Murray]

Hi
What setting do I need to change to allow P.C. users to open mac office
word documents I send to them? At the moment they can't open them

Letting us know the specifics would help.

 

[Eric Olson [MSFT]]

For Word for Macintosh documents to be opened easily on a PC it is important
to add the .doc extension. This can be added automatically when saving new
documents by checking the Append file extenion option found in the File -
Save As dialog box.

Eric Olson [MSF]

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[Alan Marcelius]

For Word for Macintosh documents to be opened easily on a PC it is important
to add the .doc extension. This can be added automatically when saving new
documents by checking the Append file extenion option found in the File -
Save As dialog box.

Eric Olson [MSF]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi
What setting do I need to change to allow P.C. users to open mac office
word documents I send to them? At the moment they can't open them

I thought so too, but am forced to use "MacLink" to translate them...and
then some older word programs have troubles.

 

[Walt Basil]

For Word for Macintosh documents to be opened easily on a PC it is important
to add the .doc extension. This can be added automatically when saving new
documents by checking the Append file extenion option found in the File -
Save As dialog box.

Eric Olson [MSF]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi
What setting do I need to change to allow P.C. users to open mac office
word documents I send to them? At the moment they can't open them

I thought so too, but am forced to use "MacLink" to translate them...and
then some older word programs have troubles.

You may also want to try sending attachments using the "Encode for Windows
(Base64.MIME; no compression; Windows file name extensions." Drop down the
"attachments" arrow in your composed message window and select it that way,
or you can change your preferences to do that by default. That is what I
use when I use Entourage. Mac users and Windows users can receive
attachments successfully that way.

In my experience, when I send the Mac way, Windows users get confused
because they see a resource fork as a file, and open it. Of course it
doesn't open. Sending this way sends the file without the resource fork.

Walt Basil

 

[raydamonster]

I've sent documents created at home in Word 2001 for Mac
to my work PC via e-mail. I can't launch the attachments
in my e-mail application (in this case Lotus Notes), but
if I detach them to my PC's hard drive, I can open them
with Word XP without any problem. I don't think I type
the .doc at the end of the file name. I just save it with
whatever file name is shown. The save operation
automatically adds the .doc ending. Hope that helps.