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    emailing Word docs from Mac to PC

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by diver110, Mar 10, 2007.

  1. diver110

    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

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    At at local Apple store I had two different sales people tell me two different things about emailing word docs from a pc to a mac or vice versa. One said it could be a problem some of the time for fonts and other formatting issues. The other said it was no problem period as long as both computers had the Word program.

    This is a VERY big deal to me as I email docs a lot, and it would typically be to PC users. I am currently a PC user buy contemplating a mac. Can anyone give me advice about this? Many thanks.
     
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  2. mayhemtwine

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    hi, as a pc user who has recieved word documents from mac users with no problems, i'd like to let you know that i've had no problems at all :)

    However i have noticed that the documents are in .rtf format instead of the usual .doc, but that's no problem and word 'converts' accordingly...

    Good luck with your purchases, i would love to have a mac one day!

    hope that helps,
    Miss Mayhem
     
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  3. diver110

    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hmm, well that could be an issue. When word converts, what happens to the formatting? Fonts stay the same? Footnotes survive?
     
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    The first sales person is more correct. However, the problem he mentioned applies to all transfers of Word documents, not just from PC to Mac or vice versa.

    If you use a font style in your document that is not installed on the machine you send the document to, the formatting on the section using that font will automatically switch to the default Times New Roman font.
    Furthermore, if you are transferring from Word 2007/2004/2003 to an older version of Word, some more advanced formatting on text might be removed.
     
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    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks Budding. It sounds like, in a sense both salesmen are partially correct, the issue is not PC versus Mac but whether you both have recent Word programs. Do I have that right? Do you know if footnotes are an issue?
     
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    yeah, like budding said, the main problems is using a font that the other doesn't have. and it should default to .doc format. im sure it can save in rtf, which some people do, but im pretty sure the default is .doc. so there wont be any problems
     
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    I have a Macbook Pro with Parallels installed and I'm running Office 2003 in my Windows XP guest operating system. I also have Office for Mac installed in OSX. I've moved doc files from OSX to WindowsXP using the Mac to Windows shared folders that Parallels provides.

    I've had no problem with compatibility between the two.
     
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