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  • 31-01-2008 10:22pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29


    Hi! I recently bought a Macbook and I bought Office for Mac 2008 so that i could tranfer data from my macbook to my home and college PCs so that i could print the documents. But i tried opening some of my files that i typed on the Macbook Word for MAc but they wont open on my home computer!! I have windows XP on it. Does anyone know how i can fix this so that i can read my word for mac documents on my PC?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Is it that the files themselves won't open or that the disc you have them on can't be read by Windows?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 MadSambuka


    the files wont open. I have them on a usb Key.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Are you by any chance saving them in the new Open XML format (do the file extensions end with an x, as in .docx, .pptx, etc.) and then trying to open them with an older version of Office on the PC? Only Office 2007 (PC) and 2008 (Mac) can handle these file types, you'll need to save your documents in the old formats if that's the case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    I had big problems like this when I first installed Office 2008.

    There are two main reasons, Microsoft tech support told me: a corrupt Normal.dot template, and corrupt preferences.

    I solved it by uninstalling, then nuking all the .plst files relating to Microsoft, plus the Microsoft folder in the Preferences, then emptying the trash and closing down the machine overnight.

    (You probably don't need to leave it off overnight, but maybe go and make a cuppa to give yourself and the computer time to forget all the horror. I have a theory that residual memory keeps sparking away somewhere in there until the machine cools fully.)

    When I reinstalled it, it worked fine. I actually rang Microsoft support, who were very helpful, but in the end I didn't need them - it reinstalled ok once I'd done this.

    Oh, by the way, there are also apparently problems if you're running Leopard; see this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=54979365#post54979365


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Breezer wrote: »
    Are you by any chance saving them in the new Open XML format (do the file extensions end with an x, as in .docx, .pptx, etc.) and then trying to open them with an older version of Office on the PC? Only Office 2007 (PC) and 2008 (Mac) can handle these file types, you'll need to save your documents in the old formats if that's the case.

    Got there before me, yeah I'd put money on this tbh.

    Normal.dot problems are usually to do with starting a new document where word crashes or throws a wobbly - had loads of these on the peecee in the past. simply deleting normal.dot forces Word to create a new one curing the problems.

    ZEN


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭conor2007


    neooffice does the job for me - saaves it to whatever format you want


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