
In the Compatibility Report pane, on the Check compatibility with pop-up menu, click the version of Office that the document might be opened in, and then do one of the following: If you want to Do this Try to fix the Compatibility Report issue Under Results, click an issue, and then click Fix.All documents created with Microsoft Word for Mac OS X 2011 are compatible with all versions of Microsoft Word, regardless of whether the computer is running Mac OS. Microsoft Office for Mac OS X 2011 includes all of the same features as Microsoft Word for Windows. The Microsoft Office software bundle, including Word, is available for Mac OS X. Any difference in font or printer driver from one machine to another has the potential to affect spacing, breaks, window & orphans, paragraphs, etc. Microsoft Word is a word processor that has text that flows, unlike a PDF or page layout program. This is true PC to PC, PC to Mac, Mac to Mac, and Mac to PC. If there are compatibility issues, the Compatibility Report pane opens.

Otherwise, click OK to close the compatibility check. Click Compatibility Report and if you receive a message that you have at least one compatibility issue, click OK to look at the issues.Create or open the document that you want to check.

Do any of the following: Check a document when you save Note: The Compatibility Report checks for compatibility issues with Office 98 for Mac through Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and with Windows versions from Office 97 through the Microsoft Office 2010. Open Ms Word in Windows OS-> Pressed Alt + F11 -> Add one Module and put function of create buttons there -> Saved file as.dotm-> put this.dotm file in Word folder of AppData folder in both Widnows and Mac OS. Word has improved since Office 2004, and now provides more scope for precision layout and effects, but this was always Pages' virtue, straddling the divide between word processing and DTP.
