Mac Word Compatibility

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Choose from over 70 beautiful Apple‑designed templates, and customize your reports, letters, and other documents any way you like. And, if you've ever dreamed of writing a book or fairy tale, it's easy to create interactive stories right inside Pages.

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Track changes, add highlights, and have threaded conversations with your team. Your edits are saved automatically.

Apply 'Helvetica Neue LT Pro 65 Medium' (display in Mac Word's font dropdown box) / 'Helvetica Neue LT Pro 65 Md' (display in PC Word) on all text. Save document as PDF in both, PC and Mac version. On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Output and Sharing, click Compatibility. Under Compatibility Report, clear the Check documents for compatibility check box. Tip: To check the compatibility of a document after you have turned off the Compatibility Report, on the View menu, click Compatibility Report. About the Compatibility Mode of a Word document If a Word document shows the text Compatibility Mode in the title bar, it means that the document was created or last saved in an earlier version of Word than the version you are using. Example: You are using Word for Microsoft 365. For a long time Word on the Mac seemed the poor cousin to its Windows alternative. Microsoft put that right with Word 2016 and has now built on this success with the 2019 version.

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Now, on your iPhone and iPad, you can read through your document, zoom in and out, and interact with it — without accidentally changing anything.

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Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in Pages, without the need to open a web browser. Simply add a link, and play your web video inside your document or book.

You don't work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Pages. Work seamlessly across all your Apple devices. The documents you create using a Mac or iPad will look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.

You can also work on documents stored on iCloud or Box using a PC.

Work together in the same document, from across town or across the world. You can see your team's edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. Just click the Collaborate button and invite people to join.

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Zotero and Word Compatibility on Apple Silicon (M1) Macs

To use Zotero with Microsoft Word 16.44 or later on an Apple Silicon (M1) Mac, you must be running Zotero 5.0.95.2 or later. A bug in macOS prevents earlier versions of Zotero from communicating with Word.

  • If you haven't yet upgraded to Zotero 5.0.95.2 or later, you should update via Help → 'Check for Updates…'.
    • If you're still running Word 16.43, you should upgrade to the current version of Word.
    • If you previously set Word to open under Rosetta to work around this bug, you should select Word in Finder, go to File → Get Info, and uncheck 'Open using Rosetta', and then restart Word.
  • If you're not yet able to upgrade to Zotero 5.0.95.2 or later, you can work around this bug by a) downgrading to Word 16.43 or b) setting Word 16.44 and above to open under Rosetta by selecting Word in Finder, going to File → Get Info, and checking 'Open using Rosetta'.

Mac Word Compatibility Mode

Technical Details

Mac

Zotero hasn't yet been ported to Apple Silicon, so it runs under Rosetta on M1 Macs. Prior to Word 16.44, Word also ran under Rosetta, and Zotero's Word integration worked without problems.

Starting with Word 16.44, released on December 15, 2020, Word runs natively on M1 Macs. Zotero uses Apple Events to communicate with Word, and due to a bug in macOS (filed as FB8943158), trying to pass 2048 (211) or more characters of text between a Rosetta app and an Apple Silicon app via an Apple Event results in a freeze. Mac studio fix powder plus foundation nc35 swatch. The same thing happens trying to pass 2048 characters in an AppleScript from Script Editor to TextEdit when Script Editor is set to run under Rosetta, or vice versa. It doesn't happen when both apps are running under Rosetta, as was the case before Word 16.44.

Starting with Zotero 5.0.95.2, Zotero automatically starts an intermediate service in native mode to forward messages between Zotero running under Rosetta and Word running natively.

Further Discussion

If you have questions about this issue, let us know in the relevant forum thread.





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