Ms Word

[ramone_kalsaw]

I'm trying to open a Word doc created on a Mac (os 9.1) on my PC (WinXP) and I'm getting code-junk instead of text. I thought that WinXP was supposed to readilyread a Word doc created on the Mac.

 

Is there a setting to make this happen, or can you make other suggestions?

 

Thanks!

[borfast]

This may be a silly question but... are you using the same Word version (or a more recent one) both on Windows and Mac?

[LisaJill]

Also - what was the mac document saved as? What file extension?

[ramone_kalsaw]

• The Mac doc has a file extension of ".doc"
  

• I'm trying to open the Mac doc on a WinXP PC using Word 2002 SP3
  

• The Mac file was created using MS Word 98 for Mac on Mac O/S 9.1
  

[borfast]

Well, it's not a version compatibility problem, since the Mac version is older than the Windows version - meaning the Windows version *should* be able to read the Mac document. On the other hand, we all know that MS has always been great at providing backwards compatibility for their own products...

 

Perhaps the problem is simply the fact that one document was created in a Mac and Word dor Windows is not capable of reading it.

 

I think your best is to ask MS about it or try to find the information on their website.

 

P.S. - Word 2002 for Windows?? Did that exist at all?? I've never used MS Office much but I think the Windows versions are 2000, XP and 2003, right?...

Edited July 13, 2004 by TCH-Raul

[TCH-Rob]

Raul,

 

I believe XP and 2002 are one in the same.

[borfast]

Humm... I didn't know about that, never saw it refered to as 2002

[TCH-Rob]

Well my disk said XP when I installed it but about says 2002. Go figgure.

[borfast]

Perhaps it's some version naming scheme. Sort of like Windows XP is Windows 5.1 and 2000 is 5.0, or something like that.

[arvind]

Window and Office XP are referred to as 2002, on the packaging here anyways they're called XP 2002 !