Differences Between Win and Mac Word Contributed by and Word on the Macintosh is basically Word for Windows re-compiled to run on the Mac. It's not just 'compatible'. It's not just 'like' Word for the PC.

It is Microsoft Word, the same one Microsoft makes for every platform. However: • Not all of the modules of Word on the PC are included in Word for the Mac. • Word for the iPhone and Word for the iPad are quite different.

• Word for the web browser (Office 365) is completely different: a very lite version. The cost and number of person-hours spent developing Word is mind-boggling. It's well over a billion dollars, and there are well over ten thousand person-years of effort in it. Making a new one just for the Mac would have been so expensive that a copy of Word would cost several thousand dollars. You might buy two at that price, but the rest of us couldn't afford it! Because it is the same software, and Microsoft has a policy of bringing the two versions closer together, the differences will become less over time.

Essentially, each version on the PC is matched a year later by a version on the Mac (Microsoft is trying to reduce that gap, recently the Mac Business Unit became part of the main Office Business Unit that makes Office for every platform). Mac Office MVP Jim Gordon writes: 'The Microsoft Office file format Open XML (OOXML) is for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and used on both the Mac and the PC. The file format was accepted by an international standards body.

Office 2010 for Windows with service pack 2 or later and Office 2011 for Mac comply strictly with the standard. Office 2008 for Mac and 2007 and 2010 for Windows prior to service pack 2 comply about 98% of the way to the standard (there's a very minor exception in Excel).

Before you install the Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update, make sure that you have Office for Mac 2011 14.1.0 or a later version installed on your computer. Also, make sure that the computer is running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or a later version of the Mac OS X operating system. Apr 06, 2015  In the Microsoft Office 2011 14.4.9 Update volume window, double-click the Office 2011 14.4.9 Update application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk.

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'Microsoft also ships a set of fonts with the same names on both Microsoft Office for Mac and PC. The fonts distributed with Mac Office have been ver y carefully adjusted ('hinted') so documents on the Mac will look and orint the same way as documents using the PC versions of those fonts on the PC.

The differences are tiny, but they account for the differences in the way the Mac places pixels on the screen. 'As for having documents be identical when moving from one computer to another there are factors you must consider.

This is true PC to PC, PC to Mac, Mac to Mac, and Mac to PC. Microsoft Word is a word processor that has text that flows, unlike a PDF or page layout program. Any difference in font or printer driver from one machine to another has the potential to affect spacing, breaks, window & orphans, paragraphs, etc. To repeat - these changes have nothing to do with Mac to PC, rather they are caused by computer to computer differences. Windows Macintosh Control Key Command (Apple) Key Right-Click Control-Click ctrl+c Command+c ctrl+v Command+v ctrl+s Command+s File>Close Command+w ctrl key Option Key ctrl+q Command+Option+q ctrl+space Ctrl+space Tools>Options Word>Preferences File>New Task Pane Project Gallery Mail Merge Task Pane Data Merge Palette The Control-Click (or Right-Click) brings up the 'context menu' wherever you happen to be.

In Word almost everything you want to do, or everything you want to know, will appear on the right-click. The menus that appear vary dramatically depending on where your mouse-pointer is. Word also responds to the scroll-wheel if you have one. (Not all windows; for example preferences and options dialogs do not.).

Mouse scroll wheel support in Word pre-X depends totally on the mouse drivers. Microsoft drivers for the Microsoft Mouse generally work (and will often drive other companies' mice!). In Windows, the keyboard shortcuts are listed in the Help, in a topic surprisingly enough called 'keyword shortcuts'. On the Mac, only some of the keystrokes are listed, in various topics such as 'About using shortcut keys' and 'Select text and graphics'. To find the list on either platform, use Search from the Microsoft Office Help to look for the word 'keyboard'. You can look at the Key Assignments by using Tools>Customize>Keyboard on either platform. If you select a command, and it has a key assignment, the Customize dialog will tell you what it is.

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This is a better place to look than the Help, because users can (and should) change their keystrokes to suit themselves on either platform. The Customize dialog also includes a handy Reset button if you decide you do not like the keystrokes you inherited from the previous user on that computer. Finally, each version of Word enables you to print a list of the currently-assigned keystrokes so you can stick them on the wall. To print them on the Mac: • Go to Tools>Macro>Macros • In the Macros In pop-up menu, click Word Commands • In the Macro name box click ListCommands • Click Run • In the List Commands dialog, click Current Menu and Keyboard settings and OK • On the File menu, click Print. You do it exactly the same way in Windows,.