Mac people? I need help.

[heidi]

Anyone have an answer for this author re saving as HTML (or even txt) on a mac in AppleWorks? If you can either post there or let me know, that would be amazing.

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[casirafics.livejournal.com]

In AppleWorks, she should be able to go to the Save As... dialog box and pick her desired file format from the dropdown at the bottom. HTML, text, and various flavors of Word files are all options. I'm on version 6 of AppleWorks and can't entirely vouch for earlier editions of the program, but I'll bet they all do the same thing.

If she's REALLY stuck, she can always copy the text and plop it into TextEdit, which ought to be on her Mac as well. Then go to the Format menu, select Make Plain Text, and save it as a file with a .txt (or, for that matter, .html) extension.

(For what it's worth -- I have a Mac and don't own Word, either. I use TextEdit to write my fics, and that program saves as .rtf by default, which is common enough that it's usually not a problem; but in order to upload anything to Fiction Alley, I have to convert my files. If I could request anything, it would be to make .rtf an upload option. But that's wandering a bit off-topic into "it's all about me!"-ville. :)

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

I have used Appleworks for years and have always used the Save As txt or html format for my stuff I have to upload places. If they save it as plain txt first (meaning none of that nice doc formatting but they should already know that) and then as html, it should work just fine. If not, the latest forms of Appleworks have various doc formats it can be saved and opened in. Or she can always try downloading Open Office like the Linux users.

[isilya]

Go Text Edit -> Preferences and select "Format as Plain Text". Now your documents will be saved as .txt by default. You can override this on a document by document basis if you want.

Heidi, re the poster on FAP: she sounds very confused and perhaps a bit hostile. Appleworks can save as .txt, .html, .doc and .rtf. If she has failed to negotiate the Save As... dialogue, then I don't know if explaining it to her is going to make any difference--her statement that "her computer can't recognise HTML" documents is very odd.

TextEdit is most definitely what I'd recommend she use (changing the preferences as I mentioned in this comment). TextEdit is clean, it's quick loading and it's very easy to use.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Using text edit is definitely easier. I wrote everything on appleworks and saved as html but the upload system didn't always recognize it for some strange reason so often what I'd do is open it in my browser program and then resave it from there just to make sure it really was in html. (Also, to make sure the coding was working.)

man, I need a mac icon.