How to get a pc word document to open on a mac?
should i save it a specific way? just a basic word document that i need to get tranfered to a mac via a flash drive
should i save it a specific way? just a basic word document that i need to get tranfered to a mac via a flash drive
Online Administrator
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....try saving it as a .doc file, I think you'll be OK.
Anonymous
I have never had a problem.. I am a student and open my Word documents typed up on my Mac at home on the college Windows computers all the time. You just have to purchase Office for Macs.
cpcii
If you save it in Word on a PC and open it on a MAC it shouldn't matter, it's the version of word your using, newer versions can always read older versions, older versions need an update to read newer ones. If you have an newer version you can always save it as an older version (file/save as/change to older Word format)
Jorge Campos
Download a trial of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac from here:
https://store.digitalriver.com/store?Action=DisplayTrialRegistryPage&Locale=en_US&SiteID=msmactus&productID=110084300&resid=-81hRQoBAlkAAFpWhSEAAAA-&rests=1282159405311
This is the official easiest way to do it, of course the trial runs out on 30 days, so you would need to buy it.
Anonymous
You could save as .doc, .docx, if a mac owner has Office for Mac or iWork. Otherwise you could save as .rtf or .pdf