Apple Mac/PC File Compatabilities

I need to send a word document to a guy with an apple mac.

Now i know he wont be able to open it if it stays as a word document.

So i will need to change it to somethin else, it doesnt really matter what as it only needs to be basic bold underlined italic etc.

So if i send him the email as a .txt file would that work, would he be able to open it properly?

Thanks

[timwilky]

send it in rich text .rtf

Personally if he does not need to change the document I would write it as an acrobat pdf

If he has Open Office or the likes installed, he'll be fine with an MSWord document (of any version).

PDF Writer is a nice thing to have installed though

Edit: Only just saw your last question. a Text file (.txt) won't retain file formatting, so he wont see bold/italic/underline. For that, you'll need RTF as a minimum really.

It doesn't matter whether they have a PC or a Mac. What is required is them having Word installed (or another program like OpenOffice that can open Word documents.

As others have said, pdf or rtf are probably better options.

[TSM]

What wyrdness said, its not that macs cant read it but they dont use file extentions so somtimes word will not want to recognise it. Saying that i think now OSX will understand that a doc ending is a word file. If not just go into Word on the Mac and select to view any file type, then open the file you want, word will know that its a file it can work with and open it.

Originally Posted by TSM

What wyrdness said, its not that macs cant read it but they dont use file extentions so somtimes word will not want to recognise it. Saying that i think now OSX will understand that a doc ending is a word file. If not just go into Word on the Mac and select to view any file type, then open the file you want, word will know that its a file it can work with and open it.

OSX does recognise it i run OSX on my mac and can open word and excel docs with no problem i used send docs from my pc at work home to the mac to work on and vice versa before i moved

[TSM]

Originally Posted by Tara

OSX does recognise it i run OSX on my mac and can open word and excel docs with no problem i used send docs from my pc at work home to the mac to work on and vice versa before i moved

Thats cool, then. I have not used OSX that much recently, i was from the 7.x.x days where you needed to install a seperate app that decoded the file extentions from PCs and vicaversa.