Saving documents on a usb drive that will beopened on a pc-windows system

[Robshelia]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I work from home with my imac at times. When I save a word document on my usb flash drive my pc at work will not show the document.

 

[John McGhie]

That works fine here.

What format document are you using?

Which version of PC Word?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I work from home with my imac at times. When I save a word document on my usb
flash drive my pc at work will not show the document.

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[CyberTaz]

There isn't sufficient detail as to what you mean by "pc... Will not show",
but in general do *not* save files directly to USB sticks [I hate that term
- they *are not* "drives" & it gives the wrong impression ].

Save your files to you HD, them move/copy the file to the stick. When you
get to the other system use the OS (Finder or Windows Explorer) to move/copy
to that system's HD & work with that copy.

If that alone doesn't improve thing you'll need to indicate what it is that
doesn't "show"...

Does the Windows system not recognize the USB device?
Does it recognize the device but not show its content in the Explorer?
Or do you mean that in Word File> Open doesn't recognize the file?
What format are you saving the file in... .doc, .docx, .rtf????
Which version & update level of Word is on the PC?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

another thing to watch out for when you buy a memory stick to use with a
Mac. do not reformat it.

Mac are setup to open and save files and allow files to be downloaded
from a Memory Stick even though they are always formatted to use with
Windows/DOS.

On the other hand if you take the time to reformat your memory stick to
Mac OS or Extended OS format. No PC nor no UNIX, or Linux machine can
read the disk. You will only be able to use it strictly on Mac's.

So when you get a memory stick just insert into USB drive on a Mac and
you can copy files to it and other should be able to see them on the PC.
Especially if they are Office Documents.

There isn't sufficient detail as to what you mean by "pc... Will not show",
but in general do *not* save files directly to USB sticks [I hate that term
- they *are not* "drives" & it gives the wrong impression ].

Save your files to you HD, them move/copy the file to the stick. When you
get to the other system use the OS (Finder or Windows Explorer) to move/copy
to that system's HD & work with that copy.

If that alone doesn't improve thing you'll need to indicate what it is that
doesn't "show"...

Does the Windows system not recognize the USB device?
Does it recognize the device but not show its content in the Explorer?
Or do you mean that in Word File> Open doesn't recognize the file?
What format are you saving the file in... .doc, .docx, .rtf????
Which version & update level of Word is on the PC?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

I work from home with my imac at times. When I save a word document on my usb
flash drive my pc at work will not show the document.

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