The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    word for mac and word for windows compatability

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by diver110, Aug 15, 2010.

  1. diver110

    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    399
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I work in Word and have a Windows computer at work. I was thinking about getting a MBP and mostly staying in OS X. I can get Word 2008 for Mac. My concern was whether there would be full compatability with Word 2007 which I have at work. I saw some suggestions on the internet that there were some issues, including the "track changes" part of Word, a big deal to me. Anyone else hear anything about iffy compatability? Thanks.
     
    diver110, Aug 15, 2010
    #1
  2. scott90

    scott90 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    103
    Messages:
    27
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I had even 2004 and 2007 word documents transferred to my MBP with no problems. There will be a conversion for the file so the version can read it. Word, Excel and power points were the same and was not altered in format at all.
    Hope that helps.
     
    scott90, Aug 15, 2010
    #2
  3. crazycanuk

    crazycanuk Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,354
    Messages:
    2,705
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    56
    normally it will be fine unless there is special formatting or VB
     
    crazycanuk, Aug 15, 2010
    #3
  4. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

    Reputations:
    996
    Messages:
    3,727
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    106
    documents between different versions of MS Office from Windows to Windows can have problems.. don't expect any better from Mac to Windows or vice versa.
     
    doh123, Aug 15, 2010
    #4
  5. msparrow88

    msparrow88 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    482
    Likes Received:
    9
    Trophy Points:
    31
    it will work fine.
     
    msparrow88, Aug 15, 2010
    #5
  6. RogueMonk

    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    369
    Messages:
    1,991
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Never had a problem.
     
    RogueMonk, Aug 15, 2010
    #6
  7. iRis9091

    iRis9091 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    7
    Messages:
    105
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    no problems mate. OS X saves files in .doc or .docx formats so its basically the samething
     
    iRis9091, Aug 17, 2010
    #7