MS Word on a MAC - HELP!

2blue4u

2blue4u

Suspended / Banned
Messages
3,769
Name
John
Edit My Images
Yes
Can any kind Guru please help me?

Most of my use of MS Word is in downloading a formatted online response which is output into Word format. This comprises in a large part a Table that can run over a couple pages.

When opening this in Word 2007 under XP it behaves as I want it to. I'm trying to divest myself of all MS apps so that I can also ditch XP. So I now have Word for Mac 2011 - but I'm having problems.

Problem 1: How do I force Word:Mac 2011 to open a document in Print Layout View rather than Web Layout?

Problem 2: When I open these downloaded response forms under XP, they open as they are intended with a fairly generous left and right margins of about 3cm. But.... when opened in Word:Mac 2011, the Table is the full width of the page - irrespective of whatever I try. Even cut-n-pasting the Table from the opened document into another with set margins still results in the Table going full width.

This is seriously doing my head in. I hate word at the best of times. Wordperfect circa 1992 was far better than this **** :bang:

Thanks for reading. Any help very gratefully received.
 
You've looked at Preferences, to see if there is anything there that can be changed I assume .I wonder if the problem is simply Word 2011 works differently to word 2007. A friend of mine recently got a new Mac and the newer version of Word behaved differently to the one on her earlier model.

I'm not a great MS Word fan , that's the reason I opted for iWork rather than MS Office. You could try downloading "Pages" from the app store, it only £14.00. It seems to handle word docs happily as far as I can see. You may then be able to reformat the docs to your liking.

Lotus Ami Pro was a great word processor. Pity IBM killed it when they bought Lotus
 
I already use Pages and it totally trashes the formatting within these Word documents. I just need to find a solution that gets me away from XP :(
 
If you don't get any more replies here you could try Mac Forums and see if anyone there can help.
 
try open office, it's free so it will not cost anything to try it
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top