copying documents /pictures from pc to mac

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OK, want to copy my saved documents/ pictures etc from the old pc onto the mac (imac 27" osx) can I plug in the portable hard drive they are on and just move them across or is there some form of process that needs to be followed. I`m assuming that the drive being formatted for a pc won`t be an issue and the mac will read it? I have office 2011 installed purely for word and excel so I also assume the documents should be ok. As for the pictures I assume I can somehow get them into iphoto?
Any tips appreciated..
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Andy:D:D
 

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Depends entirely on how the external drive is formatted. If it's FAT32, then you can read and write no problems, in this case it's just a matter of selecting the file and dragging them onto your Mac. If the external drive is NTFS, the you should be able to read from it but not right, and the dragging should still work.

You can copy all the pictures to the Pictures folder in you home directory and the Word/Excel files to the Documents folder..
 

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