[muglo] Re: Communicating with Windoze
- From: Tee Cashmore <tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:50:26 -0500
Ilbert Walker wrote:
>Probably like you, I regularly get MS Word and other word processer=20
>documents from Windows users as attachments to emails, which present=20
>problems in opening, reading or responding from a Mac.
>Exe. files seem to be totally unopenable. My usual response is to=20
>request them to resend in RTF and attempt to open with Text Edit or=20
>Appleworks' This is a pain for them and me.
>
>At the same time I'm not wishing to add to our new knight, Sir William=20=
>
>Gate's fortunes by being forced into purchasing MS Word or Office for=20
>the Mac,for which dialog boxes requesting I buy always come up when=20
>attempting to open Windows attachments.
>
>Would be interested in hearing of others solutions to this problem of=20
>communicating with the other 95% of the world !
>
>Buy MacLink or similar translator ?
>Buy MS Word or Office?
>Buy MS Entourage ? ( little use to me as a retiree)
>some other work around ?
>
>Ditto when sending attachments to them - just use the "Window friendly"=20=
>
> check box in the Mail programme?
>
>Am I missing something simple here?
>
>Any suggestions as to how you cope would be appreciated
>
>Ilbert
>
>And a final thought? from WWW Walker's Wit ansd wisdom
>
>=93That would defeat the purpose=94 - as the bookstore clerk replied to =
>the=20
> customer query - "where's the Self Help section?"
>
My suggestion is as always, use Appleworks! Version 6 under Panther now
has Maclink built in; always did when it was Clarisworks. Even under O/S
9 with Version 5 & Ver 11 of MacLinkPlus there were few problem files. I
have not had any problems opening Word, Excell & other stuff from the
other side, but if they send an "exe" file that simply tells you they
are totally computer illiterate, as I find 95% of email users are.
We use Macs, we are different because we are better & we are better
because we are different!
TTFN,
TeeC
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