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The code stripping utility HTMLFilter2 available for the PC is not available for the Mac.
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HTML support in Word for the Mac is not at the same level as it is in Word on the PC: many web pages load as a shattered mess. Customized toolbar buttons are supported on the Mac, but the Icon Editor is missing. Font embedding is not supported on the Mac. And some of them we wouldn't want, anyway! Most of the omissions are of interest only to solution developers:
There simply was not enough time and money to bring all the features of PC Word across to the Mac. There are more than 30 million of them in Microsoft Office.
Every line of code has to be planned, typed, and checked.
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Making software is a depressingly manual activity. The people who have real trouble are the ones that have used floating text boxes and spaces to try to line things up: that will produce word-salad. Assume that a Mac will reflow text by about half a per cent. Assume your user is going to throw an A4 document onto a US Letter paperstock, or vice versa. Use paragraph properties to manage pagination.
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If the printer driver is running on a Print Server, results will be closer (but remember: the fonts are different!).
The same physical printer will often produce different results from the same document depending on whether the printer driver is on a Mac or a PC. Toolbars remain customizable in Mac Word. Various commands in Mac Word exist only in the menu bar, which Mac Word still has, or on the toolbars that Mac Word still has. It is expensive and time-consuming to fix this, and you will never get it perfect. Unless you are prepared to create color profiles and carefully color-match every device in the chain on both the PC and the Mac, just accept that colors are going to look quite different. Generally Mac Office has a wider gamut, but Mac monitors have a very different gamma. The color table is markedly different between Mac and PC (and even between PowerPoint and Word/Excel on the Mac). Other fonts will not appear/work or occasionally, crash.
Mac Word can use ONLY TrueType fonts and OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines. They will be silently ignored, unless done in code, where they will blow up. Ribbon Customizations are not available in Mac Word. For a long and happy life, copy the templates locally to the user's My Templates folder on the Mac. Due to multiple bugs in the file path resolving and handling mechanism, templates in network directories should not be shared between PC Word and Mac Word. Network Templates ' Don’t' work in Mac Word. ppt files, templates, and animations, or create compatible presentations from scratch. With ThinkFree Show: you produce the same high-impact presentations as Powerpoint. Calc has every feature Office users expect and allows you to tackle the most complex analytical tasks ThinkFree Calc: lets you create spreadsheets just as you do with MS Excel™, or open and edit existing Excel files. Write’s seamless compatibility lets you to share documents and collaborate with MS Word users. Create rich, professional-quality documents and web pages. ThinkFree Write: is a powerful word processing application that has all the features you expect with the same look-and-feel you already know. You will be amazed by our faithful recreation of the Office user interface - new users are immediately productive. Use ThinkFree Office to create word processing documents, spreadsheets, and graphic presentations, or open and edit Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents in ThinkFree Office. ThinkFree Office is the most accurate MS Office-compatible productivity suite on the market today.