Documents created in Microsoft Office for Mac are generally compatible with Microsoft Office for PC. Both Office for Mac and Office for PC are Microsoft products and, in most cases, you simply double-click on the Mac Office document to open the document in Office on the PC. However, in some cases, the document created on the Mac may not open on the PC. In these cases, you can save the document in a format that will be recognized by Microsoft Word on the PC. Save the document in the “Rich Text Format” and the document that was created on the Mac will open in Word on the PC.

With Word 2008 (Mac), Word 2007 (Windows), and Word 2010 (Windows). OpenOffice, NeoOffice, Lotus Notes, and Apple Pages (part of iWork) can open these documents, but their conversion process changes how.