On 7/8/03 10:06 PM, "mary wagner" <mscello[at]cox.net> wrote:

> Now I am really confused! I have a new ibook OS 10.2 and I purchased
> Office v.10. When I do an attachment ( 1 page typed) and save it as a
> .doc it still doesn't open on a PC. I tried sending a .doc to a pc
> with office 2000 in the 10th largest school system in the country. I
> got a box that came up (on the school pc) and had "encoded"text with
> Unicode UTF-8 highlighted. I couldn't get it to open in MS-DOS or
> any other format on the pc. I came home and tried sending it several
> other ways- I tried sending a .doc on both AOL and my cable as well as
> saving it )(different times in MS-DOS, rich text and text). Nothing
> would open - what am I doing wrong? I know pc people had
> troublereading my imac Office 2000 attachments but that was before I
> knew about .doc I bought this new Ibook and the office package
> because I have to be able to send attachments for my work. I can't
> get it to work. Please help. Thanks! Mary

Hi Mary!

So long as you are saving your document with the ".doc" extension at the end
of the file name, your Windows folks should be able to open it with Word for
Windows.

In every attempt to send it to a Windows user, have you been emailing the
document? Do you have the means to place the file on a disk or copy it to a
network server to get it to the Windows machine? Your email settings may be
altering the document somehow.

If you're sending via AOL, then AOL is probably stuffing your file before
sending it. You could try using another email client instead of using AOL's
email.

If none of the above works, can you send me a copy of a Word document
privately? I'll see what I get on my end.

Hope this helps! bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)

When I tested this the other day 0 I sent emails out through both
cox.net and AOL. Neither were getting through.I will send some
attachments out this weekend to see if they can be read. Can a pc now
read a MAC Word disk now that OS X is unix based? I do not have
access to a network server. Thanks! Mary
"William M. Smith" <mecklists[at]REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com> wrote in message news:<BB30F40B.C1A9%mecklists[at]REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com>...
> On 7/8/03 10:06 PM, "mary wagner" <mscello[at]cox.net> wrote:
> When I tested this the other day - I sent emails out on both aol and
cox.net Neither were getting through. I tried the .doc but will send
some out this weekend to see if anyone can read them. If they can't -
I;ll get back to you. I know I'm asking dumb questions here but if I
put something on a disk from the MAC - can a pc user use the same disk
and read it now that OSX is unix based? I do not have access to a
network server.
> > Now I am really confused! I have a new ibook OS 10.2 and I purchased
> > Office v.10. When I do an attachment ( 1 page typed) and save it as a
> > .doc it still doesn't open on a PC. I tried sending a .doc to a pc
> > with office 2000 in the 10th largest school system in the country. I
> > got a box that came up (on the school pc) and had "encoded"text with
> > Unicode UTF-8 highlighted. I couldn't get it to open in MS-DOS or
> > any other format on the pc. I came home and tried sending it several
> > other ways- I tried sending a .doc on both AOL and my cable as well as
> > saving it )(different times in MS-DOS, rich text and text). Nothing
> > would open - what am I doing wrong? I know pc people had
> > troublereading my imac Office 2000 attachments but that was before I
> > knew about .doc I bought this new Ibook and the office package
> > because I have to be able to send attachments for my work. I can't
> > get it to work. Please help. Thanks! Mary
>
> Hi Mary!
>
> So long as you are saving your document with the ".doc" extension at the end
> of the file name, your Windows folks should be able to open it with Word for
> Windows.
>
> In every attempt to send it to a Windows user, have you been emailing the
> document? Do you have the means to place the file on a disk or copy it to a
> network server to get it to the Windows machine? Your email settings may be
> altering the document somehow.
>
> If you're sending via AOL, then AOL is probably stuffing your file before
> sending it. You could try using another email client instead of using AOL's
> email.
>
> If none of the above works, can you send me a copy of a Word document
> privately? I'll see what I get on my end.
>
> Hope this helps! bill

In article <59627c62.0307111942.4ce53126[at]posting.google.com>,
mscello[at]cox.net (mary wagner) wrote:

> Can a pc now read a MAC Word disk now that OS X is unix based? I
> do not have access to a network server.

No, but for over a decade Macs have been able to format, read and
write disks in PC-readable format. I don't use floppies any longer,
but I burn CDs all the time to transfer info (with rebates, I
generally get 100 CD's for the cost of a stamp, so it's cheaper than
floppies). I also have a zip disk as a backup, but haven't had to
use it for at least 2 years.