Hello dohede@gmail.com,
Thank you for your post. 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. Office 2008 for Mac and 2007 and 2010 for Windows prior to service pack 2 comply about 98% of the way to the standard (there's a very minor exception in Excel).
Microsoft also ships the same set of fonts with Microsoft Office for Mac and PC.
our documents should look the same on the Mac as long as ALL of these conditions are met:
* The documents on the PC originated in Microsoft Word 2010 with service pack 2
* The documents were saved in a current OOXML file format in Word 2010
* The documents used only fonts supplied with Microsoft Office 2010
* Old versions of the same fonts are not installed or active on either the Mac or the PC
* The documents are opened on the Mac in Microsoft Word 2011
* The current versions of the Microsoft Office fonts are active on the Mac
* The printer driver on the Mac behaves identically to the printer driver that was being used on the PC where the documents were saved.
The behavior of Word is identical on the two platforms with regard to the formatting you expressed concern about. There are conditions that must be met if you want your documents to look alike when moving from one computer to another - regardless of platform.
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