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Documents can take one of several roads between your Mac and a Windows machine; many of these methods are the same as Mac-to-Mac transfers.. For example, you can transfer a file on a dis

6.3 Exchanging Data with Windows PCs

It's no surprise that the Mac is great at transferring information among Mac programs The big news is how easy Mac OS X makes it to transfer files between Macs and

Windows computers

Documents can take one of several roads between your Mac and a Windows machine; many of these methods are the same as Mac-to-Mac transfers For example, you can transfer a file on a disk (such as a CD or Zip disk), on a flash drive, via network, by Bluetooth, on an iPod, as an attachment to an email message, via Web page, as an FTP download, and so on The following pages offer some pointers on these various transfer schemes

6.3.1 Preparing the Document for Transfer

Without special adapters, you can't plug an American appliance into a European power outlet, play a CD on a cassette deck, or open a Macintosh file in Windows Therefore, before sending a document to a colleague who uses Windows, you must be able to answer "yes" to both of the questions below

6.3.1.1 Is the document in a file format Windows understands?

Most popular programs are sold in both Mac and Windows flavors, and the documents they create are freely interchangeable For example, documents created by recent

versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FileMaker, Free Hand, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and many other Mac programs don't need any conversion The

corresponding Windows versions of those programs open such documents with nary a hiccup

Files in one of the standard exchange formats don't need conversion, either These formats include JPEG (a photo format used on Web pages), GIF (a cartoon/logo format used on Web pages), HTML (raw Web page documents before they're posted on the Internet), Rich Text Format (a word-processor exchange format that maintains bold, italic, and other formatting), plain text (no formatting at all), QIF (Quicken Interchange Format), MIDI files (for music), and so on

But what about documents made by Mac programs that don't exist on the typical

Windows PC hard drive, like Keynote or Pages? You certainly can't count on your recipient having it

Do your recipients the favor of first saving such documents into one of the formats listed

in the previous paragraphs In Pages, for example, choose File Save As; from the File Type pop-up menu, choose "Word Win 97, 2000." Now name this special version of the document (remember the doc suffix), and then click Save

6.3.1.2 Does the file have the correct filename suffix?

As noted in Chapter 5, every document on your hard drive has some kind of tag to tell the computer what program is supposed to open it: either a pair of invisible four letter codes

or a filename suffix like doc

Microsoft Windows uses only the latter system for identifying documents Here are some

of the most common such codes:

Microsoft Word (old) .doc Letter to Mom.doc

Microsoft Word (latest) .doc x Letter to Mom.docx

The beauty of Mac OS X is that most programs add these file name suffixes

automatically and invisibly, every time you save a new document You and your

Windows comrades can freely exchange documents without ever worrying about this former snag in the Macintosh/Windows relationship

6.3.2 Notes on Disk Swapping

Once you've created a document destined for a Windows machine, your next challenge is

to get it onto that machine One way is to put the file on a disk—a CD you've burned, for example—which you then hand to the Windows user

Fortunately, although Windows can't read Mac disks, the Mac can read (and create) Windows-compatible disks When you insert a Windows-formatted CD into your Mac, its icon appears onscreen just like a Mac disk You can drag files to and from this disk (or its window) exactly as though you're working with a Mac disk (only slower)

6.3.2.1 Creating a Windows disk on the Mac

You can even create a Windows disk on your Macintosh CDs and DVDs that you burn

on the Mac, for example, are Windows compatible right out of the gate Chapter 11 has details on disc burning

6.3.3 Network Notes

Mac OS X can "see" shared disks and folders on Windows PCs that are on the same network Complete instructions are in Chapter 13

6.3.4 Via the Internet

Chapter 22 offers details on FTP and Web sharing, two ways to make your Mac available

to other computers—Windows PCs or not—on the Internet