Windows Compatibility

[Marc Harmon]

All of my Word X documents have been saved to CD in a Mac HFS+ format.
Does anyone know if a PC running Windows XP will read this format?
If not, if I burn these again as a mixed Mac PC format (preferred) or an
isso 9660 (??), will Word on Windows XP open the Word X docs I have made?
If so, what is the oldest version of Word on Windows which will open my Word
X documents, and is there a limit where the version of Windows is concerned?

Thank You,
Marc

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Any Windows PC can read ISO9660 CD format. I doubt if any of them can read
HFS+. I would be surprised if your CD Burner allowed you to create an HFS+
format without giving you an argument: are you sure it's not an ISO9660
format anyway?

The oldest version of Word on the PC that can EDIT a Word X document is Word
97. However, when you copy the files off the CD, they usually copy as "Read
Only" so you have to right-click them in File Explorer and set Read-Only to
OFF before you can edit them.

The oldest version of PC Word that can READ the files is Word 6, if you have
downloaded the Word 97 converter for Word 6 and Word 95 from the Microsoft
website. This converter is import-only: they will save in Word 6 format
(which Word X can edit).

Word 6 requires Windows 3.1 to run. Word 95 and above require Windows 95 or
later to run.

Hope this helps

All of my Word X documents have been saved to CD in a Mac HFS+ format.
Does anyone know if a PC running Windows XP will read this format?
If not, if I burn these again as a mixed Mac PC format (preferred) or an
isso 9660 (??), will Word on Windows XP open the Word X docs I have made?
If so, what is the oldest version of Word on Windows which will open my Word
X documents, and is there a limit where the version of Windows is concerned?

Thank You,
Marc

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Marc,

All by itself Microsoft Windows can not open Mac files.

There are products that will fix this deficiency. One of them is MacOpener
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/13424>

-Jim