Formatting a new USB stick to use with a mac

[se22cat]

So my wife has just joined a college class, and the teacher is apparently pretty horrible, they won't even help students to format a USB stick to save their work on!

I have ordered a stick from Amazon, and will pop into the Apple Store on Friday to see if they could help me out by formatting it - it'll still be sealed in it's original packaging, but was wondering if they refuse, could I possibly ask someone who might be hot desking in or around Goose Green to help out?

We don't use macs at home, otherwise I could naturally do so myself of course.

[RichH]

Modern Macs support both FAT32 and the (formerly proprietary Microsoft) ExFAT format so you should have no problems formatting (if necessary) the USB key on a Windows computer and also using it with a Mac computer.