When I send files as attachments they crash the computer of a colleague. He thinks that if I convert them to .doc documents his computer won't crash, but my apple doesn't seem to provide that option. Any ideas?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Microsoft Word files are cross-platform, so if your colleague has Word installed he should be able to read them, unless his version predates the introduction of docx, which seems to be the case.
When docx was introduced, Microsoft provided a converter for Word 2004 that enabled users to read docx files from Word 2008 (the first version to use them). Possibly they did the same for the Windows version.
If you would like to save and send the Word document as .doc, just "save as" under the menu item "file", and select .doc from the drop down menu.
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