How do I save as a word file?

[Chuck Peterson]

I have created a letterhead design for a customer. I created it in Omega, saved it as a PDF for him. He needs to open it in Word. I don't even know if that's Microsoft Word or Word perfect. Omega lets me save as WP2 and Illustrator has a lot of formats but the few I've tried don't open in Microsoft word 2003.

Obviously I'm not familiar with using word. Any suggestions?

 

[papabud]

i would save it as a tiff, opening it in illustrator and save as a tiff if you have to. then open word and place it in a document . then send that.

 

[Pixels Are Bad Mmmkay?]

Try Open Office. We run this open source software instead of MS Word and love it for all our day to day invoicing and other applications. It will save (and open) any Microsoft file format.

https://www.openoffice.org/

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Try Open Office. We run this open source software instead of MS Word and love it for all our day to day invoicing and other applications. It will save (and open) any Microsoft file format.

https://www.openoffice.org/

This, except with LibreOffice.

Otherwise, essentially the same thing (I even think LibreOffice is/was a fork of OpenOffice, but don't quote me on that).

 

[Chuck Peterson]

My customer wants to use Word. Isn't there a way to save a PDF, AI, or anything else into a format that can be open in Word so he can type a letter on his letterhead?

 

[truckgraphics]

JPG

Save it as a jpg and copy paste into Word or a Word equivalent. (Never tried it with a Tiff as suggested above, but a jpg will work and should be easier/faster to open than a large file.)

At least you are sending the Word file, rather than receiving.

I hate when customers send me Word files and tell me it is finished art work (mini rant over).

 

[WildWestDesigns]

My customer wants to use Word. Isn't there a way to save a PDF, AI, or anything else into a format that can be open in Word so he can type a letter on his letterhead?

If I recall correctly, send it as a picture file (like was mention) and then they would just need to save it as a background (I would have them save it as a template file at that point with nothing else on it, that way when they open it, it says Untitled XX versus whatever the name of the file is, so they don't write over it).

 

[James Burke]

We've always preferred .png files without a background.


JB

 

[Chuck Peterson]

Thank you all. I think I did it.