For those of you who have not heard this (Archer must have at least twice if he's read his email yet), guess what platform those documents were created on? From the guesses that all of you seem to have made, you're wrong.
Also, for those of you who have not had much experience in cross-platform files, documents can be opened with any word processor no matter which one created them. Usually, from what I last heard, every computer (any OS) comes with a word processor of some sort: claris works, appleworks, and ms word are the most common. Last I checked, they all read each others' documents almost perfectly. The only problem I've ever run across is that sometimes by double-clicking a document that your computer does not recognize on the desktop it will not open. In that case you must open it manually with the file menu in your word processor.
When I hear from everybody that that does not work, then I will do it some other way, but I'm not about to go doing things the hard way when I don't have to (ask me about that part later)