[willed]

I usually send my essays to my Uni tutor by e-mail the night before my tutorial. With Entourage I never had a problem. However, I now use 'new improved' Mail. I sent a Word document to my new tutor, and she couldn't easily open it - I had to rename the file with .doc on the end for her to make Word open it, and then it came up with loads of code, with my document buried in the middle of it.

I think she was using quite an old version of Word, but .doc is still .doc, right? I was wondering if Mail used compression of some sort which was causing problems?

[SMacTech]

I never have problems with sending word docs as attachments with mail.app to PC users.
However, Word on a Windows OS must have a .doc filename extension. Without it, the OS doesn't know which app to use to open the document.

[Xeo]

It's probably because she's using an old version of Word. Mail doesn't compress stuff (to my knowledge) and I've never had a problem with Word documents before. You should have the .doc on the end, though, since Windows prefers that (and OS X likes them more now too). I'd try saving your Word files into the version that she is using. The newer version of Word can save into the older versions, but the older versions can't be guaranteed to read the newer versions.

I'm just guessing here and throwing out ideas. I hope it helps.

[wataru]

No, .doc is not .doc because MS keeps changing the spec. It definitely sounds like her Word is old.