I am thinking two ways. One would be to do an automator/applescript that you could just drop the file on and have the extension built or the other would be to get an application that will rename your files and add the extension as a part of the process. Jens Jens Selvig ...lost in Montana... lstnmt at bresnan.net On Nov 18, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Germain M. wrote: > Hello, I'm a writer. I now use Pages with a great joy! But I do > have to export into Word format. No problem here. Pages does it > fine but the exported file never show the ".doc" extension. I have > to Get info and uncheck the "hide extension" in order to have the > file with its extension showed. I tried to send the file without > its extension but a the other end of the tunnel, people would say > the file cannot be opened. Is there a way to make a file show its > proper extension without "Get info" each and every time. I still > prefer all the files on my computer not to show an extension.