Talk me out of retina

[dejongj]

Yes, it was expose! I did some work helping a company get their web catalogue together when they were starting up, and at one stage had probably 10 word docs and 12 spreadsheets open at the same time. Even using a 20" monitor as I was then, it was completely imposible to tell which file was which (and hovering over the file didn't pop up any info in that version (10.5) either. TBH the Macbook nearly went through the window several times, and it was only the sheer cost of the thing that stopped me damaging it - that was probably the most frustrating time I had with it.

Another issue was that, even though I was running office:mac, documents prepared on the mac always looked a bit different on everyone else's computers, which made me look very stupid when presenting information to customers. Yet another was the TNEF mail problem, where mail sent to me from some devices would arrive blank with a win.dat attachment that required processing to make it readable (thank you TNEF's enough). My colleague here uses apple mail, and if he tries to send an attachment his mails are always blank.

It is actually an issue with Microsoft not interpreting the standard correctly. But that is not helpful as most are using microsoft. There is a little tool that will ensure attachments are always last, then email will come through properly on Windows machines...

I've never noticed the difference between office on the mac and windows. The only reason I could think off is when fonts like helvetica are being used which generally weren't installed on windows machines.

 

[ancient_mariner]

It is actually an issue with Microsoft not interpreting the standard correctly. But that is not helpful as most are using microsoft. There is a little tool that will ensure attachments are always last, then email will come through properly on Windows machines...

I've never noticed the difference between office on the mac and windows. The only reason I could think off is when fonts like helvetica are being used which generally weren't installed on windows machines.

I think it was Calibri, rather than Helvetica - older versions of office didn't seem to have it - but there also seemed to be layout differences that a simple font change couldn't explain.

 

[Andy Taylor]

I think it was Calibri, rather than Helvetica - older versions of office didn't seem to have it - but there also seemed to be layout differences that a simple font change couldn't explain.

Different versions of Word on Windows can't always open files without some minor differences. You need to match the equivalent version between Mac/Windows as well as making sure you are using the same fonts and file version (.docx).