text edit mac to pc conversion problem

Starhorsepax

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Help. Does anyone know away to save a document in text edit on mac as a word program and open it on a pc without losing formatting? I'm pretty sure any electronic submissions I try are having this issue. It opens okay either way, but the paragraphs etc. are gone. Does anyone know of a patch or update? I'm sure the screwy formatting is not impressive to an editor.
The only other thing I can think is save it to a flash, take it to the library, use their software and load it from there. But I don't know how that will work either. :Hammer:
 

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Depending on which version of TextEdit you have, you can save it as an MSWord file. Use Save As to save the file as MSWord 2007, 2003, or 1997.

I would save is as MS Word 97, and be sure that you name the file with the .doc extension.
 

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I have saved it both rtf and word. It opens okay in another program-I tried it on a borrowed PC, but the formatting is wiped out. No paragraphs or page numbers, just a big blob of text. The text edit version of 1.3. I don't know if there is a newer one for my aging machine or not.