trying to send my resume to a PC via email

Welcome to Apple Discussions John

The only way for an AppleWorks file to be viewed on a PC is for the PC user to have AppleWorks for Windows. However, there are many formats you could save the AppleWorks files as that most Windows users could use. For all of these, choose "Save As..." from the File menu & change the "File Format" in the drop-down menu. You do need to add the appropriate file extension to the file name as Windows does not know what program to use without it and AppleWorks will not add it for you.
]1. For pictures, JPEG (not JPEG 2000) is best. Add .jpg to the file name.
]2. For word processing, most will use Word Windows 97, 2000, XP. Add .doc to the file name. You can also save as RTF (.rtf) or plain text (.txt).
]3. For spreadsheets, save as Excel & add .xls to the file name.

You could also save any document as a PDF which can be viewed by Acrobat Reader. Essentially, you print the file to a PDF format. Choose "Print" from the File menu & click the button at the bottom of the dialog box that says "Save as PDF." You will get a regular save dialog box. This method does add the appropriate .pdf file extension, just make sure "Hide extension" is not checked. I have found, though, that many PC users don't have this installed on their computers.

Peggy

I belong to an group that only communicates by email and most of them have PCs. I have discovered through bitter experience that there is no one format that works for everyone. It depends what flavour of PC they have in many cases.

Sometimes saving as Word 97, 2000 works for them, but sometimes it does not. Saving as Rich Text works more often, but not every time (and the reverse is also true - I have been sent unreadable attachments that had a .rtf suffix, two even caused OS9 to crash trying to open via AppleWorks!).

There has only been one way that always worked in OS9 - I had an ancient version of Word 5.1 for Mac, and that ALWAYS opened a .rtf attachment, even if the formatting details were sometimes lost. I then found that using this old Word ALWAYS worked for the recipient, so I saved from that in Rich Text, and it did a whole lot better than AppleWorks. Oh, and by the way - ClarisWorks5 always did a MUCH better job of sending to PCs. Just a thought, have you thought of going back to CW5...?

Hello

As our friend is the happy owner of an iMac G5, we may assume that it is not a CW5 owner.

Using CW5 on a tiger machine is doable but it is certainly not the logical way to use this modern tool.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 12 octobre 2005 15:48:27)

Two thoughts...

1.) When you use "Save as..." -- be sure to add ".doc" as a suffix on the file. AppleWorks doesn't do this, and Windows won't know what to do with the file otherwise.

2.) If you are using Apple Mail, I believe there is a "Windows friendly attachment" box you can check when you send your file.

IF ALL ELSE FAILS...

"Print" your resume to a PDF file, make sure to use .pdf in the file name, and send that. In some cases, a PDF created on a Mac won't open on a PC. The recipient should launch Acrobat, the use File -> Open to open the PDF.

G,

If you will look at all the posts in this thread, you will see that I posted this information (& more) in the first reply. If you don't see all replies in a thread, you can click on "View All" under the original post or at the bottom of a thread.

Peggy

I belong to an group that only communicates by email and most of them have PCs. I have discovered through bitter experience that there is no one format that works for everyone.

Actually there is. If you are sending a simple document that the formatting is not that important copy the text and paste it into an e-mail message.

I would not trust the Word translation if formatting is important (like a resumé). The pdf option is working better and better all the time as people update their computers and pdf preserves formatting beautifully in whatever program you are using.

I have also posted my pdf's on the web and had almost 100% success. Clicking on the link and downloading the file worked better than attachments and seems to be easier for my friends who are computer challenged to understand. Quite a few users don't understand how to open attachments. (Hard to believe but it seems to be true?) Sometimes the e-mail client renders the pdf in the email document in a preview style so they try and print it and end up with tiny text. Of course, all they need to do is save the attachment or double click on it and it will open but some don't seem to know this.

Faxing directly from the document is also a good option if you know the person has a decent fax machine.

Kurt

[ Actually there is. If you are sending a simple document that the formatting is not that important copy the text and paste it into an e-mail message. ]

Something I have been trying to promote for months if not years! People are so wedded to the idea of attachments, and 90% of the time they are just so unnecessary.