Latest version of skype for mac 10.7.5. There’s a “chat list,” too, that lets you organize your contact list by time, unread, or status, and you can pin people or groups for quick access. You’ll also find customizable themes to make the experience easier on the eye, themes that apparently “reflect your mood, personality, or time of day,” according to announcing the revamped software. In others words, you’ll find your messages and content available anywhere you have Skype installed, whether it’s your smartphone, tablet, desktop, Xbox, smart speakers, and more.

Text Editor (Microsoft Word vs. Apple Pages) When I first tried Microsoft Office 2007 on the PC side a number of years back, the “ribbon” interface was a relatively new concept and had yet to really catch on with end-users. Compatible with Word 97 through Word 2003 for Windows and Word 98 through Word 2004 for Mac. Rich Text Format (.rtf) Exports document content and formatting to a format that other applications, including compatible Microsoft programs, can read and interpret. Apple Pages '09 vs Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 vs Google Docs comparison review Word vs Pages: Editing documents Both Microsoft Word and Apple Pages. Comparing with Pages and Word, Word is generally more powerful, and Pages are being half deprecated by Apple. If I were you I would choose Word because of all features it has, and its functional auto save.

The best of these is to export your presentation to a QuickTime movie, which will retain slide builds and transitions, sound, and movies. You’ll have to make sure that your Windows users have QuickTime for Windows, a free download from Apple. If you’re finding that the slide transitions in your exported QuickTime file aren’t smooth, try exporting again with a few changes in the settings. In the export dialog, click QuickTime. In the Formats popup menu that appears, select Custom, then click the Settings button. Here, do two things: unselect “Frame Reordering” and then select “Faster encode (Single-pass).” If you’re not sure that Windows users will have QuickTime Player, try Keynote’s Export to Flash option.

Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 The following table lists the different kinds of documents that Word can save. File format Description Word Document (.docx) The default, XML-based document format for Word 2008 for Mac, Word for Mac 2011, Word 2016 for Mac, Word 2007 for Windows, Word 2010 for Windows, Word 2013 for Windows, and Word 2016 for Windows.

There is a help function in word – try it sometime and it will show you how to do what you are after. No need for smart comments.

Sadly, the ribbon toolbar in MS Word detracts from early productivity gains. I think Pages is great for academic stuff. I doubt you need to get Office for Mac.

Fonts Can be a Problem On the PC, you can use characters with impunity: if the PC does not have the font, it will find the closest font that contains the character. On the Mac, in Word 2004 and above, you can use the exact same range of characters because Word 2004 is running in Unicode; however, because you cannot embed the font in the document, you need to make sure that each character that you use exists in one or more of the Unicode fonts your recipient has. If in doubt, for PC compatibility, use only the fonts that Microsoft supplies. Microsoft includes a pack of fonts with Mac Office that have been very carefully hinted to display and print the same on the Mac as the same-named fonts do on the PC. Although the Mac can happily use PC fonts, the rendering of those may be subtly different, particularly on the high-res Mac displays. Jim Gordon reports that he has no problems at all with the following list of fonts: Arial Calibri Cambria Candara Consolas Constantia Corbel Times New Roman Verdana Meiryo Jim says 'Office for Mac has a very nice feature to make font compatibility a cinch.