November 5, 2012 at 04:59Comparison of Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac from the position of office use: what to look for
In this article I would like to share my personal experience of direct comparison of Microsoft Office under Windows and Mac; I will try to summarize most of the issues and nuances that arise when considering both an individual transition and the translation of organizations and groups.
I consider my individual experience to be quite representative due to the fact that I have been a professional user of Microsoft Office since 1996. I have been a professional author, reviewer and editor since 1996 every day (maybe, except for the wedding day), I have to be in Microsoft Office literally around the clock. In a day, about 25-30 Word files and 15-20 Powerpoint files containing any possible functions, i.e. large and complex (Word, as a rule, at least 200 pages; Powerpoint, as a rule, at least 70 slides). Over the past 14 years, I have tried all available versions of Microsoft Office on all available versions of Windows. I hope that the features that attracted my attention will be representative of softer scenarios. I wanted to bring some clarity, because
I. Which versions worked side by side and compared? What versions were involved in external compatibility testing?
1. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 running OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 was compared for 19 months with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, Windows 8. All versions were current and updated.
2. Counterparties - ie the authors and final recipients of passing documents were about 6,500 users of Microsoft Office 2003 and (90%) 2007 under Wndows XP (90%) and Windows 7 (10%). Office 2010 was also in isolated cases.
II. Why Microsoft Office?
Unfortunately, they could not use any other office suites in the conditions described above - OpenOffice, LibreOffice, which on Windows, on OS X, and separately on OS X, NeoOffice, Symphony, iWork opened large, multi-partitioned documents with rich formatting, distorting them. The number of pages and their borders differed. It should be noted that with each other the similarity of these distortions was quite high, i.e. it seems that Microsoft Word is fundamentally different from others; This reason ultimately unfortunately limited for us the choice of an operating system only for those that have native Microsoft Office (for example, Debian, FreeBSD and Haiku in virtual machines, therefore, they are not used for office needs, except for opening bank clients in reading mode).
III. What components do we analyze?
Mostly Word and Powerpoint. I’ll briefly close the question on others:
1. Excel: no features were noted, all files created in Windows open perfectly, and vice versa. Complex functions are not involved, all arithmetic formulas and filters work as usual. Note: hotkey combinations differ (for example, to create a new line in a cell), sometimes it’s logically not obvious, you need to google.
2. Microsoft Outlook: the version for Mac and Windows was used as the main mail client for about a year. No fundamental differences were found here. They are very convenient and fit organically into native poppy applications (by type of type in Finder) switching views by Cmd + 1,2,3,4 - mail, calendar, tasks, etc. All AutoCorrect and Microsoft Office dictionary inside Outlook are supported. The calendar synchronizes perfectly with the native application (but not with google through it! It turns into only one of the calendars on my mac. The colors of the calendars are preserved). There are no problems with migration, import, export between Outlook and Mail. It is designed for 4+, beautifully, but the devil is in the details - for example, the date format does not change when the column is stretched (and in the native mailer, the date will be in a format in which the column width allows).
Testing of Outlook for Mac was discontinued due to the conclusion that this application was not practical against the background of the native Apple Mail. The main thing that Mail immediately kills Outlook for me personally:
- the ability in a new three-panel view and in full-screen mode on a large monitor with a preview of 5 lines in the central column to see the full text of all about 12 letters at a time. Outlook is not bad, but at the same time to see so much information - and to read one letter in large form, and to see the text of 12 others - it does not allow, even to not make a picture, because in every screenshot from Mail there will be dozens of phones in signatures.
- coloring separately the text and background of letters in any colors (from the system palette, at least a thousand), depending on the rules and filters. Let's say you can set your own message color for each sender, and it’s great.
Mail also has integration with system calendars (automatic recognition of contacts and events), reminders, Applescript and Finder, i.e. It’s easier, for example, to configure sending a file using hot keys, as well as more hot keys for scattering letters. Therefore, I don’t see the point of using Outlook for Mac, the main thing is to make plain text instead of rich outgoing encoding in Mail - recipients on Outlook / Lotus will not have problems. Of course, much depends on planning tools here, if instead of native solutions we continue to work with calendars and Outlook tasks, mail in it makes more sense.
IV. Cross-platform Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Compatibility
1. Attention: not all fonts created on Windows can be read in Microsoft Office for Mac. Specifically, I came across one example - Arial Narrow, showing empty squares. When selecting text and changing the font, the text is perfectly displayed in the new font, so personally, in my case, this was not a problem, maybe the rest will be important. Most likely, the problem is solved by actively adding the necessary fonts to the system - I don’t know, there was no point in dealing with these. The main fonts are Verdana (good for the eyes, it seems to be the safest of all), Arial and dozens of others are read. Specifically, Arial Narrow after multiple office updates right now (Microsoft Office for Mac 14.2.4, OS X 10.8) is read too, i.e. I cannot reproduce any concrete example of an unsupported font at the moment. There used to be problems with Arial Narrow, which had to be translated into any other, perhaps now they are resolved. In any case, there is a certain Font substitution option in the settings, fortunately it was not needed and will not be needed anymore.
2. Word formatting: it was not possible to identify any differences or incompatibilities in the hard mode described at the beginning of the review (I estimate the sample as 15-20 thousand large documents with any formatting). I know that there were problems with the previous package - Microsoft Office 2008, but occasionally reading messages about problems with the package from 2011, I am very surprised at this, because I can not reproduce them. I will be very glad to consider (and, most likely, eliminate!) Any specific examples of any formatting distortion in personal mail.
3. Powerpoint formatting: attention - presentations made in Windows may appear on a poppy with too wide text that clearly creeps out of the slide. On Windows, the same slide will look normal. As for the slides made on the poppy, they appear normally in Windows.
4. Statistics. The office on the poppy shows a little less words and signs (probably this will be important for copywriters, etc.). Why - it was not possible to find out. The file itself by system means weighs more than kilobytes (but this also applies to other files, and in this case not in the subject).
5. Dictionary - dic files are perfectly loaded and used cross-platform.
6. AutoCorrect: attention - for Windows and Mac offices, unfortunately these are different files that cannot be used cross-platform. Most likely, if you wish, you can recode them (this is a simple text, easily displayed in both cases in rtf), and I would be grateful for the search for such a solution. But at the user level, it is impossible to use auto-replacements acquired by overwork on another platform. Moreover, within their office they work equally predictably.
7. If you open a document in Microsoft Office for Mac made on Microsoft Office 2007 before some of the old updates ... then many of the gaps will disappear. And if after that you open the document in any office on Windows, they will also be absent. The problem has long been resolved in one of the updates to Microsoft Office 2007, it is observed only when receiving files from the unreleased first releases.
V. Advantages of Microsoft Office for Mac
1. Combinations of two menus - the classic Mac application menu in the top panel (in this case, the classic Microsoft Office 2003 menu) and the ribbon under it.
As a person who quickly got used to the tape and worked confidently in the 2007-2010 offices, I have to admit that the objective time spent to find any function in the poppy version is thus shorter. A specific example: creating a keyboard command for a function (show statistics, show language, create auto-replace) takes 3 clicks more in the Windows version.
2. For key combinations, all 3 modifiers are available - Cmd, Ctrl, Alt. On Windows, you cannot use the Win key for office commands, so the poppy will either have two or one and a half times more key combinations. Since I’m used to leave the Cmd key behind the native native combinations, and the Alt key to assign pansystem calls (mainly calling programs, folders and scripts), the main custom modifier is, for example, Ctrl. The point is that in Windows everything is initially rendered on Ctrl, while Win is disabled, only Alt (+ combinations) remains from the single-key keys. On the poppy, the original native commands are rendered on Cmd, of the single-key ones only Ctrl and Alt are free (+ combinations). But if you use alt on a poppy for system launchers such as Keyboard Maestro, Quicksliver, Alfred, then in both cases there is only one modifier.
Case study: in Microsoft Office for Windows, Ctrl + A = select all. If I need a hot combination for Greek alpha containing the letter “a” and one modifier to it, Alt + a remains. On the poppy, Cmd + A = initially select everything, so Ctrl and Alt remain for customization (if Alt is not used for pansystem calls, for example, if Alt + A does not open the African pictures folder or the Activity Monitor program, one can be done for Greek alpha, and the second for Swedish A with a circle).
3. It’s not entirely clear why (the features of using RAM in nixes? Here you need to look at what the restriction was originally associated with), but after a warning like “too many spelling errors to continue to show them” (for example, in a 400-page technical text) Microsoft Word for Mac ... like a persistent tin soldier, calmly continues to show them.
4. Never failed to achieve a patient freeze.
5. Always opens any files created in Microsoft Office for Windows that other Microsoft Office for Windows do not open. It is also unclear why, but a common situation: person A Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows, person B has the same thing. I am standing in a copy of the letter from A to B with the attached file. B complains that his file does not open, I open and re-save, everyone is happy. Maybe this is the difference between generations (2011 is still an analogue of 2010 and should be better in terms of compatibility than 2007).
6. Very fast two-finger scrolling - literally in half a second to anywhere in the document. If the scrolling standard is considered to be instant scrolling of pdf in the native Preview, then here it is quite close and much better than for example in Chrome or when opening pdf using Adobe tools. Being located in the right place in the document takes a little less time than in Windows.
VI. Cons of Microsoft Office for Mac
1. Disgusting work with the menu “search”, “replacement”. If in each document you have to enter some text in the search-replace fields, Microsoft Office for Mac can infuriate. I don’t know at what place Microsoft didn’t merge with the Cocoa API, but if the cursor is located after a search-replacement, you can only act with the mouse and text, and any keyboard commands will be executed in relation to the main field of the document. Those. We typed something into the buffer, go to the search / replace field, and ... by Cmd + V the text is inserted into the document itself! By Cmd + A, the entire text of the main document is highlighted. With the mouse “paste”, “copy”, the keyboard and backspace there, fasting and prayer☺ Moreover, the “misunderstanding” by the program of where we are now, comes to the point that I select the phrase in the document, enter it into the search, copy in “replace with”, I begin to rule there ... - and she corrects directly in the document, which of course is an undesirable behavior. Maybe for the solution you need to rummage through the menu, but more likeAn obvious glitch that Microsoft would like to fix .
2. Disgusting work with textboxes and flowcharts - sometimes they are extremely difficult to edit, despite the fact that in the Windows version they are not a problem. On what features of the creation depends, it was not possible to find out.
3. A strange and offensive feature of Microsoft Word for Mac - in a retrospective comparison, it tends to show deletions in the form of side comments (Deleted: ....) instead of strikethroughs. This does not apply to track changes as such, but when retrospectively comparing with all the same checkmarks in Windows, there will be a strikethrough deleted in the text itself. For example, it’s more convenient for me to track deleted text if it is indicated by strikethroughs.
VII. Integrate Microsoft Office for Mac into the native OS X environment.
This, probably, could be important for people with OS X experience who did not choose an office suite. For switches it most likely does not matter.
Let's just say bad. The pre-existing solutions in the system are often ignored, mostly Microsoft Office for Mac was written as if under an empty program opener. But with each update, the situation improves.
1. Warning - system auto-replacements are not supported.
2. Not all system hotkeys are supported (all of a sudden: Cmd + N - no! Naturally, you can create such a command. Cmd +, and Cmd + S out of the box yes).
3. For a long time, files with auto-replacements could not find themselves, from 10.6 to 10.8 they repeatedly changed their localization and at one time they did not even transfer between 10 computers to 10.7 (although I did not try to dig deep inside the package). This issue has now been fixed.
4. At 10.7, at the beginning, Microsoft Office ignored binding to the desired desktop, and opened wherever it wanted. Now the problem is fixed.
5. In 10.7, at the beginning, Microsoft Office did not go into real full-screen mode from its desktop. Now the problem is fixed. An example of Mission Control with finally (half a year ago it was hard to imagine) Microsoft Word that had gone there correctly:
6. Restoring all open windows during reboots is normal, as it should be.
7. Very important: scaling with 2 fingers does not work. The scale has to be reduced approximately as in Windows with several tools to choose from, but not with a finger extension, a bold minus compared to other programs.
Viii. Pitfalls (other than IV)
Be sure to first thing:
By default it is included, it is impossible to work.
Often you hear about some problems with Home / end, supposedly going to the beginning and end of the document - on the large elongated Apple keyboard for OS X 10.8, the Home and end buttons work exactly the same as in Windows.
I hope the material will be useful to all those who are used to working in Microsoft Office under Windows and are interested in how this experience is portable in OS X. For me, as a 14-year-old intensive user of Microsoft Office, version 2011 for Mac seems the best of all, with who happened to work. I also consider this office suite the best for those who need to intensively exchange difficultly formatted files with Windows. However, there are several points, both solvable and potentially unsolvable, that should be remembered. What turned out well in Microsoft office for Mac is management (quick call of functions and customization of management), stability, compatibility. What turned out worse is editorial work (comparisons, system edits). Based on the comments, I separately note the absence of Visio and Access (well, this is obvious from the very beginning), the need to weigh the necessary Outlook features on the corporate network. Well, who has any ideas about converting MSO1049.acl files to Microsoft Office ACL [Russian] - I would be very glad to see a working solution for migrating autocorrect.
I consider my individual experience to be quite representative due to the fact that I have been a professional user of Microsoft Office since 1996. I have been a professional author, reviewer and editor since 1996 every day (maybe, except for the wedding day), I have to be in Microsoft Office literally around the clock. In a day, about 25-30 Word files and 15-20 Powerpoint files containing any possible functions, i.e. large and complex (Word, as a rule, at least 200 pages; Powerpoint, as a rule, at least 70 slides). Over the past 14 years, I have tried all available versions of Microsoft Office on all available versions of Windows. I hope that the features that attracted my attention will be representative of softer scenarios. I wanted to bring some clarity, because
I. Which versions worked side by side and compared? What versions were involved in external compatibility testing?
1. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 running OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 was compared for 19 months with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, Windows 8. All versions were current and updated.
2. Counterparties - ie the authors and final recipients of passing documents were about 6,500 users of Microsoft Office 2003 and (90%) 2007 under Wndows XP (90%) and Windows 7 (10%). Office 2010 was also in isolated cases.
II. Why Microsoft Office?
Unfortunately, they could not use any other office suites in the conditions described above - OpenOffice, LibreOffice, which on Windows, on OS X, and separately on OS X, NeoOffice, Symphony, iWork opened large, multi-partitioned documents with rich formatting, distorting them. The number of pages and their borders differed. It should be noted that with each other the similarity of these distortions was quite high, i.e. it seems that Microsoft Word is fundamentally different from others; This reason ultimately unfortunately limited for us the choice of an operating system only for those that have native Microsoft Office (for example, Debian, FreeBSD and Haiku in virtual machines, therefore, they are not used for office needs, except for opening bank clients in reading mode).
III. What components do we analyze?
Mostly Word and Powerpoint. I’ll briefly close the question on others:
1. Excel: no features were noted, all files created in Windows open perfectly, and vice versa. Complex functions are not involved, all arithmetic formulas and filters work as usual. Note: hotkey combinations differ (for example, to create a new line in a cell), sometimes it’s logically not obvious, you need to google.
2. Microsoft Outlook: the version for Mac and Windows was used as the main mail client for about a year. No fundamental differences were found here. They are very convenient and fit organically into native poppy applications (by type of type in Finder) switching views by Cmd + 1,2,3,4 - mail, calendar, tasks, etc. All AutoCorrect and Microsoft Office dictionary inside Outlook are supported. The calendar synchronizes perfectly with the native application (but not with google through it! It turns into only one of the calendars on my mac. The colors of the calendars are preserved). There are no problems with migration, import, export between Outlook and Mail. It is designed for 4+, beautifully, but the devil is in the details - for example, the date format does not change when the column is stretched (and in the native mailer, the date will be in a format in which the column width allows).
Testing of Outlook for Mac was discontinued due to the conclusion that this application was not practical against the background of the native Apple Mail. The main thing that Mail immediately kills Outlook for me personally:
- the ability in a new three-panel view and in full-screen mode on a large monitor with a preview of 5 lines in the central column to see the full text of all about 12 letters at a time. Outlook is not bad, but at the same time to see so much information - and to read one letter in large form, and to see the text of 12 others - it does not allow, even to not make a picture, because in every screenshot from Mail there will be dozens of phones in signatures.
- coloring separately the text and background of letters in any colors (from the system palette, at least a thousand), depending on the rules and filters. Let's say you can set your own message color for each sender, and it’s great.
Mail also has integration with system calendars (automatic recognition of contacts and events), reminders, Applescript and Finder, i.e. It’s easier, for example, to configure sending a file using hot keys, as well as more hot keys for scattering letters. Therefore, I don’t see the point of using Outlook for Mac, the main thing is to make plain text instead of rich outgoing encoding in Mail - recipients on Outlook / Lotus will not have problems. Of course, much depends on planning tools here, if instead of native solutions we continue to work with calendars and Outlook tasks, mail in it makes more sense.
IV. Cross-platform Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Compatibility
1. Attention: not all fonts created on Windows can be read in Microsoft Office for Mac. Specifically, I came across one example - Arial Narrow, showing empty squares. When selecting text and changing the font, the text is perfectly displayed in the new font, so personally, in my case, this was not a problem, maybe the rest will be important. Most likely, the problem is solved by actively adding the necessary fonts to the system - I don’t know, there was no point in dealing with these. The main fonts are Verdana (good for the eyes, it seems to be the safest of all), Arial and dozens of others are read. Specifically, Arial Narrow after multiple office updates right now (Microsoft Office for Mac 14.2.4, OS X 10.8) is read too, i.e. I cannot reproduce any concrete example of an unsupported font at the moment. There used to be problems with Arial Narrow, which had to be translated into any other, perhaps now they are resolved. In any case, there is a certain Font substitution option in the settings, fortunately it was not needed and will not be needed anymore.
2. Word formatting: it was not possible to identify any differences or incompatibilities in the hard mode described at the beginning of the review (I estimate the sample as 15-20 thousand large documents with any formatting). I know that there were problems with the previous package - Microsoft Office 2008, but occasionally reading messages about problems with the package from 2011, I am very surprised at this, because I can not reproduce them. I will be very glad to consider (and, most likely, eliminate!) Any specific examples of any formatting distortion in personal mail.
3. Powerpoint formatting: attention - presentations made in Windows may appear on a poppy with too wide text that clearly creeps out of the slide. On Windows, the same slide will look normal. As for the slides made on the poppy, they appear normally in Windows.
4. Statistics. The office on the poppy shows a little less words and signs (probably this will be important for copywriters, etc.). Why - it was not possible to find out. The file itself by system means weighs more than kilobytes (but this also applies to other files, and in this case not in the subject).
5. Dictionary - dic files are perfectly loaded and used cross-platform.
6. AutoCorrect: attention - for Windows and Mac offices, unfortunately these are different files that cannot be used cross-platform. Most likely, if you wish, you can recode them (this is a simple text, easily displayed in both cases in rtf), and I would be grateful for the search for such a solution. But at the user level, it is impossible to use auto-replacements acquired by overwork on another platform. Moreover, within their office they work equally predictably.
7. If you open a document in Microsoft Office for Mac made on Microsoft Office 2007 before some of the old updates ... then many of the gaps will disappear. And if after that you open the document in any office on Windows, they will also be absent. The problem has long been resolved in one of the updates to Microsoft Office 2007, it is observed only when receiving files from the unreleased first releases.
V. Advantages of Microsoft Office for Mac
1. Combinations of two menus - the classic Mac application menu in the top panel (in this case, the classic Microsoft Office 2003 menu) and the ribbon under it.
As a person who quickly got used to the tape and worked confidently in the 2007-2010 offices, I have to admit that the objective time spent to find any function in the poppy version is thus shorter. A specific example: creating a keyboard command for a function (show statistics, show language, create auto-replace) takes 3 clicks more in the Windows version.
2. For key combinations, all 3 modifiers are available - Cmd, Ctrl, Alt. On Windows, you cannot use the Win key for office commands, so the poppy will either have two or one and a half times more key combinations. Since I’m used to leave the Cmd key behind the native native combinations, and the Alt key to assign pansystem calls (mainly calling programs, folders and scripts), the main custom modifier is, for example, Ctrl. The point is that in Windows everything is initially rendered on Ctrl, while Win is disabled, only Alt (+ combinations) remains from the single-key keys. On the poppy, the original native commands are rendered on Cmd, of the single-key ones only Ctrl and Alt are free (+ combinations). But if you use alt on a poppy for system launchers such as Keyboard Maestro, Quicksliver, Alfred, then in both cases there is only one modifier.
Case study: in Microsoft Office for Windows, Ctrl + A = select all. If I need a hot combination for Greek alpha containing the letter “a” and one modifier to it, Alt + a remains. On the poppy, Cmd + A = initially select everything, so Ctrl and Alt remain for customization (if Alt is not used for pansystem calls, for example, if Alt + A does not open the African pictures folder or the Activity Monitor program, one can be done for Greek alpha, and the second for Swedish A with a circle).
3. It’s not entirely clear why (the features of using RAM in nixes? Here you need to look at what the restriction was originally associated with), but after a warning like “too many spelling errors to continue to show them” (for example, in a 400-page technical text) Microsoft Word for Mac ... like a persistent tin soldier, calmly continues to show them.
4. Never failed to achieve a patient freeze.
5. Always opens any files created in Microsoft Office for Windows that other Microsoft Office for Windows do not open. It is also unclear why, but a common situation: person A Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows, person B has the same thing. I am standing in a copy of the letter from A to B with the attached file. B complains that his file does not open, I open and re-save, everyone is happy. Maybe this is the difference between generations (2011 is still an analogue of 2010 and should be better in terms of compatibility than 2007).
6. Very fast two-finger scrolling - literally in half a second to anywhere in the document. If the scrolling standard is considered to be instant scrolling of pdf in the native Preview, then here it is quite close and much better than for example in Chrome or when opening pdf using Adobe tools. Being located in the right place in the document takes a little less time than in Windows.
VI. Cons of Microsoft Office for Mac
1. Disgusting work with the menu “search”, “replacement”. If in each document you have to enter some text in the search-replace fields, Microsoft Office for Mac can infuriate. I don’t know at what place Microsoft didn’t merge with the Cocoa API, but if the cursor is located after a search-replacement, you can only act with the mouse and text, and any keyboard commands will be executed in relation to the main field of the document. Those. We typed something into the buffer, go to the search / replace field, and ... by Cmd + V the text is inserted into the document itself! By Cmd + A, the entire text of the main document is highlighted. With the mouse “paste”, “copy”, the keyboard and backspace there, fasting and prayer☺ Moreover, the “misunderstanding” by the program of where we are now, comes to the point that I select the phrase in the document, enter it into the search, copy in “replace with”, I begin to rule there ... - and she corrects directly in the document, which of course is an undesirable behavior. Maybe for the solution you need to rummage through the menu, but more likeAn obvious glitch that Microsoft would like to fix .
2. Disgusting work with textboxes and flowcharts - sometimes they are extremely difficult to edit, despite the fact that in the Windows version they are not a problem. On what features of the creation depends, it was not possible to find out.
3. A strange and offensive feature of Microsoft Word for Mac - in a retrospective comparison, it tends to show deletions in the form of side comments (Deleted: ....) instead of strikethroughs. This does not apply to track changes as such, but when retrospectively comparing with all the same checkmarks in Windows, there will be a strikethrough deleted in the text itself. For example, it’s more convenient for me to track deleted text if it is indicated by strikethroughs.
VII. Integrate Microsoft Office for Mac into the native OS X environment.
This, probably, could be important for people with OS X experience who did not choose an office suite. For switches it most likely does not matter.
Let's just say bad. The pre-existing solutions in the system are often ignored, mostly Microsoft Office for Mac was written as if under an empty program opener. But with each update, the situation improves.
1. Warning - system auto-replacements are not supported.
2. Not all system hotkeys are supported (all of a sudden: Cmd + N - no! Naturally, you can create such a command. Cmd +, and Cmd + S out of the box yes).
3. For a long time, files with auto-replacements could not find themselves, from 10.6 to 10.8 they repeatedly changed their localization and at one time they did not even transfer between 10 computers to 10.7 (although I did not try to dig deep inside the package). This issue has now been fixed.
4. At 10.7, at the beginning, Microsoft Office ignored binding to the desired desktop, and opened wherever it wanted. Now the problem is fixed.
5. In 10.7, at the beginning, Microsoft Office did not go into real full-screen mode from its desktop. Now the problem is fixed. An example of Mission Control with finally (half a year ago it was hard to imagine) Microsoft Word that had gone there correctly:
6. Restoring all open windows during reboots is normal, as it should be.
7. Very important: scaling with 2 fingers does not work. The scale has to be reduced approximately as in Windows with several tools to choose from, but not with a finger extension, a bold minus compared to other programs.
Viii. Pitfalls (other than IV)
Be sure to first thing:
By default it is included, it is impossible to work.
Often you hear about some problems with Home / end, supposedly going to the beginning and end of the document - on the large elongated Apple keyboard for OS X 10.8, the Home and end buttons work exactly the same as in Windows.
I hope the material will be useful to all those who are used to working in Microsoft Office under Windows and are interested in how this experience is portable in OS X. For me, as a 14-year-old intensive user of Microsoft Office, version 2011 for Mac seems the best of all, with who happened to work. I also consider this office suite the best for those who need to intensively exchange difficultly formatted files with Windows. However, there are several points, both solvable and potentially unsolvable, that should be remembered. What turned out well in Microsoft office for Mac is management (quick call of functions and customization of management), stability, compatibility. What turned out worse is editorial work (comparisons, system edits). Based on the comments, I separately note the absence of Visio and Access (well, this is obvious from the very beginning), the need to weigh the necessary Outlook features on the corporate network. Well, who has any ideas about converting MSO1049.acl files to Microsoft Office ACL [Russian] - I would be very glad to see a working solution for migrating autocorrect.