Your documents should look the same on the Mac as long as ALL of these conditions are met: To repeat - these changes have nothing to do with Mac to PC, rather they are caused by computer Any difference in font or printer driver from one machine to another has the potential to affect spacing, breaks, window & orphans, paragraphs, etc. Microsoft Word is a word processor that has text that flows, unlike a PDF or page This is true PC to PC, PC to Mac, Mac to Mac, and Mac to PC. Microsoft also ships the same set of fonts with Microsoft Office for Mac and PC.Īs for having documents be identical when moving from one computer to another there are factors you must consider. Office 2008 for Mac and 20 for Windows prior to service pack 2 comply about 98% of the way to the standard (there's a very minor exception in Excel). Office 2011 for Mac comply strictly with the standard.
Office 2010 for Windows with service pack 2 or later and The file format is called Office Open XML (OOXML) and was established by an international standards body. The Microsoft Office file format is for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files between Mac and PC.
