Hi Michael, One thing I find theat helps, if he hasn't already tried, is adding the .doc extension on the end of the file, it often loses it between the Mac and PC.
Good luck! Kelly On 4/28/05, Michael Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning! > > I have a friend who is a first time Mac user (he's just purchased an > iBook). I have set him up with Office 2004. When he emails Word > documents they arrive for PC users as text files. These users have to > select the application to use to open the documents. > > He is using Mail and I have made sure that the setting to send > Windows-friendly attachments has been checked via Edit > Attachments. We > did a test run and here on my work PC his Word document has again > arrived as a test file. > > Does anyone know whether there are other settings I can look at? I > haven't experienced this issue and have compared settings between my G4 > with Mail and his settings - I'm stumped. > > Thanks! > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
