Opening textedit files in earlier versions of textedit . . . .

my son has a Mac Mini with 10.3. he took the project he has been working on at home to school, and worked on it on one of the macs there. the files that came back are now unopenable on his machine. i assume the machines at school are a later version of OSX.
what changed? how can he save them at school so he can read them on the machine at home? they are .rtfd format.
thanx.

I'm surprised that Panther's textedit can't read .rtfd files.
oh,it did. in fact, it allowed him to embed images in the file. it was after he opened them,worked on them, and saved them on the mac's at school, where the issue surfaced.
i can open the files on my ibook running 10.5.X. is there a way i can save them in a format he can read?
thanx.

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