How do you make MS Word & Excel on an Apple-Mac Compatible with a PC ?

Question

OK you clever people out there, please help ! Having problems sharing Word and Excel files between Mac and PC. Is this a problem that can be solved by downloading/buying software for the Mac (or PC?) ? Using MS Word/Excel 2007 on the PC's? Any other ideas ? The PC's can often but not always open the files in 'compatibility mode', but that's not great. Thanks guys for helping with this annoying problem. Steve

Answer 1

Steve, the answers here are lame.



If you open a document that was saved in the old 97 through 2004 file format (.doc) (.ppt) (.xls) in Office 2007 (Windows), 2008 (Mac), 2010 (Windows), or 2011 (Mac) you will be in "Compatibility Mode." That's to let you know that the old file format doesn't support a whole lot of the current features of Office. Compatibility Mode turns off the new features so you can't accidentally introduce them into the old file format. The standard format for Office documents is called open XML file format (.docx), (.pptx), (.xlsx).



The way you get out of Compatibility Mode is the exact opposite of what most people here posted. You do NOT save in the old file format. Instead, you save in the current format. Once you use Save As and choose the current format instead of the old format you will be taken out of Compatibility Mode and then you can use all the new features in you files.



You can NOT change the format by changing the file extension. You HAVE to use Save As and choose the current format from the Pop-Up menu.



If you have a Mac, you can make an Automator workflow to do this automatically if you have a lot of files to switch over to the new format.

Answer 2

I'm amazed how many people are posting here without knowing what they're talking about.



The documents that you create on a Mac are the same as the ones on a P.C. - the difference being that when you save it on your Mac, you are asked if you want to keep the file extension (.doc or .xls).



Macs are able to look at a file and know which application to open it with. Your P.C. will stare at it blankly and ask you what to do if you don't tell it. The bit at the end tells it what to do with the file.... ('Essay.doc' tells it that it is a Word document). If you save the file on a Mac without this bit, your P.C. will be stuck.



However, it is possible to rename the file later, and by adding the '.doc' to the file name, it should be able to open it.

Answer 3

short answer: Its not. At this factor, they are somewhat even, so its a count of decision (or desire). computers nonetheless have the final public for nicely suited utility, yet there are homestead windows emulators which you will run on a mac. Macs are often greater constructive for audio and photograph/video modifying, whilst computers are probable somewhat greater constructive for typical utilization. As of now, macs are safer against viruses in basic terms because of the fact there are fewer accessible for the mac. Its nicely-known that the secure practices on a mac is nicely under a homestead windows device (on the final hacker convention, OSX grow to be hacked in approximately quarter-hour)

Answer 4

i say save the word document as .doc and excel files as .xls on the Mac, it should be able to open on PC

Answer 5

Steve ??? Steve Jobs???!!!



i knew it, even you admit your OS SUCKS!!



its because documents made on one os or the other, are made in a slightly different format, we had this problem in school and there was no solution.



same with the fact of "you cant put videos in a powerpoint on a mac but you can with windows"

Answer 6

just make sure when you save your file from your mac you save as: .doc