[tpicco]

I do a quarterly report magazine job for a client. Allegedly he uses Word... and every file he e-mails me has the suffix .mcw

Double clicking does not open it. The "Kind" column in the window says they are Excel binary files. (???)

Sometimes I rename it with .doc and it opens in Word.

Sometimes when that doesn't work, I rename it with .txt and open it in the Text Reader.

It downloads with an older Excel file icon... but Excel doesn't want to open it.

Usually I get the files, but sometimnes certain odd gcharacters convert... like quotation marks all change, or the Euro symbol changes. Search & replace makes that barely a problem, but what the hell is he working in?

He says he's working in Word. He is a British citizen working in NYC and it may be the UK version of Word...

Any thoughts or knowledge?

[Super Glitcher]

Ahhh... sounds like something that would happen with a Microsoft file format.
Keep clicking on it and maybe your screen will go blue

If you can get it open in text edit that sounds like a winner to me, unless you
need to maintain his formatting?? But I can't see that being the case.....

I don't know what ms word extensions are these days, but try changing it to
that (whatever it is). If that's a no go - work on getting him to upgrade