[X4U] Hide the extension: I don't want to but X wants!

[John Baltutis]

On 11/18/07, "Germain M." <germain_m at videotron.ca> 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.

Finder->Preferences->Advanced->select Show all file extensions.