[Ti] [OT] Microsoft Office : PC versus Mac

[Paul Russell]

>
>Wow.  Chalk one up for Shawn!  Good idea. And in reply to Trevor, MS 
>Office on the Mac, from Office '97 and on, is absolutely compatible 
>between Mac and PC.  I have used both Office '97 and Office X, and 
>have never encountered a compatibility problem in either direction. 
>What your switcher-friend may have heard about was a minor issue 
>with Appleworks, in which Appleworks would append the wrong file 
>extension to a document saved as a Word file.  It was saving Word 
>files with the Applework's ".cwk" extension rather than the Word 
>".doc" extension.  This is easy enough to fix by simply renaming the 
>file.  But I only recall that happening with Appleworks...I have 
>never seen any such thing when using Word on a Mac.
>
>So, tell your "almost ready to be a switcher" to go ahead as there 
>is compatibility.  I think someone is feeding him a line of the 
>really runny stuff to keep him in the camp of the "dark side" (ooow, 
>ominous).
>

Be careful - things can get ugly if, e.g. the PC user creates any 
embedded drawing objects using Visio, for which is there is no 
counterpart on the Mac.

I fell foul of this very problem recently and now have to use a PC to 
work on collaborative Word documents with my PC-using colleagues.

Paul

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