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    a typicaly confused windows user question..

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ally03, Nov 17, 2005.

  1. ally03

    ally03 Newbie

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    im a student considering buying an ibook. just a simple question though, say if ive written something on my ibook in whatever the equivalent of microsoft word is, would i be able to copy it to a disc and then open up what ive written in a windows computer?
    ...sorry if this q has made computer intelligent people out there cringe....
    thanks for any help!
     
    ally03, Nov 17, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    What file extension is it? You can always open it in notepad, but you will probably loose some formatting.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 17, 2005
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  3. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Microsoft Word is available on Macs and so if you save your file under it, it will be the exact same as when you bring it over to a Windows PC running Word.
     
    Rahul, Nov 17, 2005
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    dark_prince Notebook Geek

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    Thats actually the main point. If the file has extension .doc (Microsoft word extension) then you can open it up with MS word or Open Office in any windows machine. If it is a simple text file with .txt extension then you can open it up with notepad or wordpad.
     
    dark_prince, Nov 18, 2005
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    willbabyy Newbie

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    I too am considering an ibook and when I called the apple questions line they said that with their new word equivalent program that I would have no problems transfering a file.

    I also had a question, I heard that some of my music files from my current pc might not transfer to an apple. Something to do with the fact that they are WMV or WMA.

    Is this true?
     
    willbabyy, Dec 16, 2005
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    FriggenJ Newbie

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    There's a version of Windows media player for OSX. There are also quicktime plugins/conversion programs that let you handle them.
     
    FriggenJ, Dec 16, 2005
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