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

In article <labolide-7BD45C.18204229082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kurt
<labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Mac OS X actually does something basically the same, it's just that the
default is to hide the filename extensions from the user.


Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
.

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