Re: Word and Excel files not opening for PC users! Help!

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In article <300820050917489008%helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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)

And Mac users are still trying to figure out why we can't just name a
document what we want for PC users since they work fine for us ;-)

Always wondered why MS doesn't get beyond this holdout from the DOS era.

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