Need some advise from anybody that might be able to help on some
computer related stuff. First problem is a new laptop that was purchased
at xmas and running windows 8.1 is refusing to work with an eircom.net email address. It appears the windows email programs requires IMAP style email address and eircoms is a pop3 type and doesn't support IMAP. Is there any way round this without getting a new email address? Or is there any decent email programmes out there to download for pc that will work for pop3 settings?

Second issue is I hope to save a large Microsoft word document to a USB stick to send to a friend the other side of the world. The bit I'm unsure of is if I save the document using my windows pc will he be able to open and view the sticks content using his Mac computer?

Thanks in advance for any help. If you could address your answers as if you were talking to a 6 year old it would be greatly appreciated also.