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.

Before running out to buy Microsoft Word (or another industrial-strength and expensive) word processing program for your Mac, remember that Apple includes a respectable word processor with OS X. The program is TextEdit, and it call s the Applications folder home.

• 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). '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. Pokemon emulator. 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.