[Zordab]

I have an iMac DV with OS 9.1 and have recently bought Appleworks 6 so I can do file translation to Word. I find that whenever I translate an Appleworks document into Word for Windows and send it over the internet it is corrupted. I am sending my rusume this way so it is a bad situation. So, I started copying and pasting my resume directly into my email app., Mozzilla, WamCom. I have sent more than several resumes this way only to find out today that when I do this all formatting is lost and my res looks like a piece of doggy dooo. Now I have resorted to doing my resume from scratch into the email app. I don't know how this is working. Today I received a Word document from a potential employer that wants me to fill it out and sent it back. I can translate it in Appleworks and send it back but I know it will look like a piece of dog poop (unreadable). It seems to me if you own a Mac and have no desire to live under a bridge you should go to the employment office and use one of their Windows computers. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by Zordab:
I have an iMac DV with OS 9.1 and have recently bought Appleworks 6 so I can do file translation to Word. I find that whenever I translate an Appleworks document into Word for Windows and send it over the internet it is corrupted. I am sending my rusume this way so it is a bad situation. So, I started copying and pasting my resume directly into my email app., Mozzilla, WamCom. I have sent more than several resumes this way only to find out today that when I do this all formatting is lost and my res looks like a piece of doggy dooo. Now I have resorted to doing my resume from scratch into the email app. I don't know how this is working. Today I received a Word document from a potential employer that wants me to fill it out and sent it back. I can translate it in Appleworks and send it back but I know it will look like a piece of dog poop (unreadable). It seems to me if you own a Mac and have no desire to live under a bridge you should go to the employment office and use one of their Windows computers. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

er, you do realize that you can buy Word for macs, no?



if you're convinced you need Word, go and buy it.

[Zordab]

Is Word for Mac any better that Appleworks for my purposes? You still have to do file translation don't you? You know, I don't have any money for word anyway.

[va3uxb]

Could you use PDFs instead of word files?

I use an iMac at work and a lot of times I get 'doc' files that open as gibberish, even though Appleworks is 'supposed' to be able to convert them. So any time I get a M$ formatted file, or any other proprietary-formatted file, I just send it back and ask for it in a PDF format.

And of course, any time I send documents to people I send them as PDFs since about 99% of my clients and suppliers are in the windoze world.

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by Zordab:
Is Word for Mac any better that Appleworks for my purposes? You still have to do file translation don't you? You know, I don't have any money for word anyway.

word has identical file formats in its mac and windows editions so there would be no translation involved.

the previous poster's suggestion of using pdf (how about using Print to PDF in the print dialog box?) is a good one, too.

[Zordab]

Thanks for advice. I think I need OS 10 to make a PDF document. For now I'm doomed to the Windows computer at the employment office. Strange macs are still so limited in this way.

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by Zordab:
Thanks for advice. I think I need OS 10 to make a PDF document. For now I'm doomed to the Windows computer at the employment office. Strange macs are still so limited in this way.

ah, i didn't catch that you were using os 9. my bad. it's not a limitation of macs per se, but rather of applework's poor file translation. since office is available for macs (and costs about the same as the windows version) it's a non issue in my opinion.

[Zordab]

I need to buy either Word or OS X. I think a new Mac OS is a much better investment than a Microsoft product. Can't afford both.

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by Zordab:
I need to buy either Word or OS X. I think a new Mac OS is a much better investment than a Microsoft product. Can't afford both.

i agree completely. especially since you'd need a new version of word, etc. when you finally did upgrade to os x while your appleworks should already be in a carbon version and should run natively.

[asmack]

You can create PDF files in OS 9 using this:

PrintToPDF

I used it for years with no issues...

[Donny1]

Kind of in the same boat as you Zordab. I am in the process of looking for a new job but don't have Word for application forms and the like.

Here's how I have formatted/emailed my CV. OS X comes bundled with TextEdit, which is the OS X equivalent of Simpletext. I've completed my CV, then what I do is go to format - make read only, which solves any formatting issues which may come about, then I save the CV as a RTF file, which Word can open. Problem solved! And I know this works because I have seen my CV which I have emailed to various agencies/companies and the formatting is unchanged. Also, you can save the file as a PDF using Preview.

What you could do is buy a reduced price copy of OS X, maybe there are some copies of Jaguar still floating about.

The only problem I have at the mo is I can't open formatted Word docs like application forms, so eventually I will have to invest in Word.

[discotronic]

Originally posted by Donny1:
The only problem I have at the mo is I can't open formatted Word docs like application forms, so eventually I will have to invest in Word.

Have you tried icWord? You can open and convert Word docs perfectly using AppleWorks. I used it for some time before I got Microsoft Office. It always did the trick for me. Here's the link:

http://www.panergy-software.com/buy/download.html

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OS 10.3's textedit will read and write .doc files