Apples and oranges

The smug and overweening  corporate ethos of Apple  is repugnant, and Steve Jobs was a ghastly man. Which is a way of saying I use Microsoft Windows (Bill Gates turned out all right in the end).  If you use an Apple without Microsoft Word, please be aware that the attachments you send may not be readable. To send a text document to us moral dinosaurs who insist on Windows, you need to use the send option from within the document itself. That is to say, do not close the document and attach it, but rather  go to “send”  on the menu bar in your Pages document, choose the “Word” option (not PDF) and then insert the address.  File menu-->Export-->Word.

Apple apparently has a “send Windows friendly attachment” option somewhere, but I don’t use Apple, so I can’t tell you where it is. But the method above works.