Topic: MS Word on Macs?

[Sacha]

Hi everyone, there is another thread on this board that mentions in passing that MS Word is seamless when going from a Mac to a PC, but then on Twitter, I often see people complaining about Word on Mac. Mostly what I see are complaints about transferring files from Scrivner to Word and that it's glitchy, but if I don't use Scrivner, do I have anything to worry about?

Thanks in advance, this is the only thing holding me back from getting Mac since Word is so widely used in our industry.

[Anne Marie]

I don't have any problem with it.  Never have. 

(Watch it happen now.)

[Joni]

Me either. (At least, no more problems that most MS products have generally, but there's hardly any escaping them.)

I would guess the Twittered problems are probably in Scrivener, not Word for Mac per se. Word is bunches of versions down the road, whereas I think Scrivener's just on 2.0.

[HDWestlund]

I find that Word 2011 (2010 on PC) is much more stable and usable than Word 2007. Word isn't perfect--but it crashes equally on both machines. And the Scrivener issue is more of a Scrivener thing than a Word thing. And it can be resolved by exporting files as RTFs and pasting them into Word.

[1846]

I switched to a Mac five years ago and have used Word all that time (and for years previously on a PC).  I've never had one problem with it, but I have never used Scrivener so I can't address that issue.

[mlbrown]

Don't use Scrivener (yet) but haven't experienced problems with Word on my Mac, and my version of Word is pretty old (so is my laptop.)

[Sacha]

Awesome, thanks you guys, that helps a lot!

[mghiggins]

I've also had no problems using Word for Mac, either transferring files with a PC or converting from Scrivener. I think if you're using a relatively new Mac and the most recent versions of both programs, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Go for it!