How to save Word 2007 files to be compatible with AppleWorks 2006

[luckyleaves]

I am using Word 2007 and have frequent need to exchange documents to and from
my father, a MAC user with Apples word processing program, Apple Works from
about 2006.

What is the best file format to enable both of us to continue to edit the
documents?
I've often saved as PDF and email them to him, but he can't edit and return
them to me.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Do you have the list of formats that Apple Works can read? It would be
odd if .doc is not among them, since that would be the most popular
format on Macs, too, by 2006.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

It could be that doc is amongst the supported formats (it might have been
added somewhere in the 6.1.x series), but I wouldn't be surprised if it
wasn't. The internals of the doc format were only publically released in
2008 under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. Most efforts of
implementing the doc format before that time were often the result of
reverse engineering and very limited documentation. Hence, they are far from
perfect.

Personally, I would suggest the Apple user to install OpenOffice. It's free,
and he should be able to read and work with whatever the OP created using
Word.

If OpenOffice is not an option, the rtf format might be the most common
format.

Yves

Do you have the list of formats that Apple Works can read? It would be
odd if .doc is not among them, since that would be the most popular
format on Macs, too, by 2006.