Re: Word and Excel files not opening for PC users! Help!
- From: Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:17:48 +1200
celticlass66@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I don't know why this is happening now, but I am having terrible
> trouble getting Word and Excel files to open on a PC. It is saying it's
> a binary file and can't open it. I'm taking classes online, and this
> hasn't been happening before. The only change is I went from DSL to a
> cable modem - I can't see how that would be different. Any suggestions
> - I'm lost!
The simplest and most common mistake when transferring files from Mac
to Windows is that the files should have the correct threee letter
extension on the end of the filenames.
For Word files the filename has to end with ".doc" (without he
quotemarks) while Excel documents have to be ".xls".
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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