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Mac users only represent about 6-10% of computers (there are different stats in that range) with Windows taking up the lions share of the market.

That especially applies to Outlook which has a very different database system in Windows (PST/OST files) that can’t work on a Mac. Though there’s now more common code between Windows and Mac versions of Office, adding Office for Windows features to Office for Mac is a lot of work. Mac feature parity isn’t in Microsoft’s corporate interestįirst the hard reality that guides Microsoft’s attitude to the Mac version of Office, even though they’ll never say it publicly. There are two small glimmers of hope that Outlook for Mac users can hold onto, more on that in a moment.ĭon’t blame the messenger ….

Vague promises with no deadlines or Same old song, different decade. Microsoft is “fully committed to Office for Mac” and “working hard to improve Office for Mac”, “great things to come” yadda, yadda … blah, blah blah. If Microsoft responds, we can predict what they’ll say, because its the same line they’ve trotted out for two decades. Is that too much to ask? José Rodríguez-Suárez January 15, 2022 should provide macOS/Windows feature parity in Outlook. If there will still be differences then I'll skip the $35 and just keep going to the computer lab to tweak things.As I increasingly use my MacBook Pro, it becomes more evident that for Mac is crude as compared with #Outlook for Windows. If I install that, and use Word to create these documents, will they appear the same when my professor opens them using Word, on her Windows computer? I can buy the MS Office suite for Mac at school using my student discount (it's around $35 I think). It seems fine when I save it in Open Office, and it's fine when I then open that document using Open Office, but if the document is opened with MS Word, the formatting is horrible. docx), and for plain text formatting that's fine, but as soon as an outline or numbered list is created, things look crazy. I can save an Open Office document as a Word file (.doc or.

The problem is that I have a professor who needs some documents turned in via e-mail, and they use MS Word. When I need to turn something in, I just save it in PDF format, e-mail it to myself, then go to a computer lab, check my e-mail, and print off the PDF document. I love Open Office (and love that it's free). I'm have a MacBook Pro running Leopard,and I've been using Open Office to write my papers.