We’ve redesigned Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to work even better with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Now, more features are supported, including commenting, conditional formatting, and bubble charts. And each update adds greater compatibility. It’s never been easier to take a Microsoft Office document from your Mac or PC and import it into Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. So you can keep the workflow flowing.

Update Microsoft Word To Be Compatible With A Mac Computer
Update Microsoft Word To Be Compatible With A Mac Pdf

With Word, your Office moves with you. Whether you are a blogger, writer, journalist, columnist, student, or a project manager working on documentation, it’s as handy as you want it to be. Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac MacBook Pro Touch Bar is fully supported by Microsoft Word. The Microsoft Office file format is for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files between Mac and PC. The file format is called Office Open XML (OOXML) and was established 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.

Update Microsoft Word To Be Compatible With A Mac Computer

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Update Microsoft Word To Be Compatible With A Mac Pdf

Microsoft Word Format (.docx)	Pages for Mac
Text	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Bidirectional Text	Supported for Arabic and Hebrew
Column Formats
Font Types	Fonts available for download are imported. Unsupported fonts are substituted.
Ligatures
Line Spacing
Subscript
Superscript
Tab Setting	Some tab settings may look different
Text Boxes
Linked Text Boxes
Text Colors
Text Effects
Text Highlighting
Text Wrap
Vertical Text
WordArt	Text is preserved, but formatting may not be maintained
Lists	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Image Bulleted Lists
Numbered Lists
Text Bulleted Lists	Stylized bullets replaced with plain bullets
Tiered Numbered Lists	Some lists may look different
Paragraphs	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Background Shading
Formatting
Paragraph Styles
Illustrations	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
ClipArt
Floating Objects
Images	Most image formats are preserved
Shapes
SmartArt Graphics	Imported as shape
Charts	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
2D Column
2D Stacked Column
2D 100% Stacked Column
2D Bar
2D Stacked Bar
2D 100% Stacked Bar
2D Line
2D Stacked Line	Imported as Line chart
2D Marked Line
2D Stacked Marked Line
2D 100% Stacked Marked Line
2D 100% Stacked Line	Imported as Line chart
2D Area
2D Stacked Area
2D 100% Stacked Area
2D Smooth Marked Scatter
2D Smooth Lined Scatter
2D Straight Marked Scatter
2D Straight Lined Scatter
2D Pie
2D Exploded Pie
2D Pie of Pie	Imported as Pie chart
2D Bar of Pie	Imported as Pie chart
2D Marked Scatter
3D Column
3D Stacked Column
3D 100% Stacked Column
3D Bar
3D Stacked Bar
3D 100% Stacked Bar
3D Line
3D Area
3D Pie
3D Exploded Pie
3D Stacked Area
3D 100% Stacked Area
Bubble Charts
Doughnut	Imported as single tier doughnut chart
Exploded Doughnut	Imported as Pie chart
Surface Charts
Radar Charts
High-Low-Close Stock	Imported as Line chart
Open-High-Low-Close Stock	Imported as Line chart
Volume-High-Low-Close Stock	Imported as Bar chart
Volume-Open-High-Low-Close Stock	Imported as Bar chart
Column Cylinder
Stacked Column Cylinder
100% Stacked Column Cylinder
3D Column Cylinder
Column Cone	Imported as 3D Column Cylinder chart
Stacked Column Cone	Imported as 3D Column Cylinder chart
100% Stacked Column Cone	Imported as 3D Column Cylinder chart
3D Column Cone	Imported as 3D Column Cylinder chart
Column Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Column chart
Stacked Column Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Column chart
100% Stacked Column Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Column chart
3D Column Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Column chart
Bar Cylinder
Stacked Bar Cylinder
100% Stacked Column Cylinder
Bar Cone	Imported as Bar Cylinder chart
Stacked Bar Cone	Imported as Bar Cylinder chart
100% Stacked Bar Cone	Imported as Bar Cylinder chart
Bar Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Bar chart
Stacked Bar Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Bar chart
100% Stacked Bar Pyramid	Imported as 3D Rectangle Bar chart
Header and Footer	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Footers	Tables in footers are not supported
Headers	Tables in headers are not supported
Page Numbering
Symbols	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Equation
Symbol
Page Setup Options	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Borders
Margin Presets
Orientation
Page Sizes
Page Background	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Page Color
Watermark
References	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Bibliography	EndNote bibliographies are supported. In Word Citation Manager bibliographies, text is preserved but cannot be managed.
Citations	EndNote bibliographies are supported. In Word Citation Manager bibliographies, text is preserved but cannot be managed.
Footnotes
Table of Contents	Not all styling is preserved
Reviewing Tools	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Comments	Text comments are supported
Ink Annotations	Imported as shapes
Track Changes	Changes to body text continue to be tracked. All other changes are accepted on import.
Miscellaneous	Supported	Partially Supported	Not Supported
Breaks
Hyper