| Regarding email attachments, if you want to send any type of text-type document, the easiest thing to do is to save it in .text format (a file with the suffix .txt). That file can be opened on either a Mac or a PC. Many people with PCs save their word-processed documents in things like .rtf (richtext) or .doc, and those may or may not be possible to open on a Mac depending on which word-processing programs they are running. When people send me a PC document that I can't open just using AppleWorks, I usually use the MacLink translator which is included in some of the O/S versions. MacLink can work as either a drag-and-drop application where you drag the icon of the document (after saving it to the desktop or other location on the Mac) to the translator, and drop it onto. You can convert many formats of documents either to or from PC or Mac formats. I have used it a lot over the years to convert files for clients that I've been writing for and it works very well. Anyhow, as I said above, the best way to get around cross-platform problems is to just save any text-type document in .txt. In addition to being able to open those in a word-processing document, a .txt file should open using any browser. By the way, one file format which I've had trouble opening on my Macs is the .exe file. I don't like them anyhow as I think they are the worst ones for being infected with viruses. Whenever someone emails me an attached .exe file, I never open it... instead, it goes straight into the trash. |
