Further to that - if you select WindowsWord format that too defaults
the file name to just "something". If you change it to "something.doc"
it becomes a Word file that should open on any windows PC.
Brenda
On 8 Jan 2007, at 14:08, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Tamara
I have Appleworks 6. If I 'Save As' in Appleworks the default option
is the Appleworks format "something.cwk". However, if I choose Text
from the file format list it will just come out as "something" which
should open Word on a Windows machine, but that Windows PC is less
likely to throw a wobbly if the filename is changed to "something.txt"
Brenda
I don't want to send the text as a scan attachment; not only is it
less clear but it gulps Megabytes like there was no tomorrow, quite
unnecessarily. I want to send the text as a document. Trouble is, my
(Mac OSX) documents give the Windows-driven 'puters (majority) hissy
fits of heroic proportions, same as my Mac absolutely refuses to deal
with things like pps files (it tells me to save it, presumably for
further twiddling elsewhere and rests on its laurels, confident that
I won't have a clue how to do it and will give up)
I've been told I need to convert my documents into something the rest
of you can read... I am willing to try (though feel more compassion
for Job than ever <g>) but, given my own 'puter-ignorance, it ain't
gonna be easy and I need y'all's help again.
My Mac has the possibility of converting to several diffrent,
system-specific documents. For example, when I e-mail my instructions
to Debra Jenny (the IOLI Bulletin editor), I send them in a Word
Windows XP 2002 format (which is supposed to be good also for Word
Windows 97 and 2000).
My other options are a few older Mac-ways (earlier Appleworks,
Claris, and two Word Macs -- 6 and 98/2000), Word Windows 6, 95, and
3 others: HTML, RTF and Text. The person who told me I had to convert
Mac documents into Windows documents said to use Text (well, she said
use "really simple text", but that's WIndows-speak that Mac doesn't
understand <g>). But, when I sent converted-to-Text file to the
person who couldn't open the Mac document, she said her puter
rejected it even faster :) We ended up with my sending her the XP
conversion, which she then took into something like "workpad" for
clean-up and managed to get the text all printed out nicely.
But I wonder if there's a better way? One where a single
Mac-conversion would work for every Windows user? Because my Mac...
he seems to think he's lowering his standards already to make (and
give houseroom to) *one* conversion. I have to remove *that*
conversion (a pain in the neck as, for some reason, I can't simply
drag it to trash from the Appleworks document "library"; I have to
access it through a diffrent route), before I'm allowed to make
another one. I kind-a agree with Mac -- since every new conversion is
another duplicate of the original document, one is more than enough
-- but that doesn't solve my problem.
Unless I find a single method of sending files to all Windows-users,
I'll be doing nothing but converting, removing, converting to
something else and removing again before making yet another
conversion... Time-wise and effort-wise it just isn't on the cards,
at least not long term. For the moment, I'll try to remember to ask
everyone what sort of set up they have and hope the conversion works
but, in the long run, that's not an efficient way of doing things.
Any suggestions?
PS I notice, in the new IOLI directory, in the "Guidelines for
submitting articles to the Bulletin" the following: "if appending a
file, please send in text or RTF format".
Well, the Text file, Mac-version, was a bomb with at least one user.
The Mac-version of RTF (WTF *is* RTF, anyway?)... When I tried it on
Debra, a couple of years ago, she said she had problems with *it*,
too, which is why we switched to the Word Windows XP.
So I have little hope for the HTML option (plus I have a dislike of
spending 120 KB for a message which, in plain text, needs about 5)
but, if y'all think *that* would work...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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