Word to buy for Mac OS X

[ruthsitton]

I just installed Mac OS X on my iMac. I have MS Word v.5,
but I would like to install a later version of word that
would would work with OS X (without classic running like my
V.5 requires). But I also want this later version of word
to be able to open my old v. 5 documents. What version
should I look for that would work with OS X, but still open
my v.5 documents?

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

I just installed Mac OS X on my iMac. I have MS Word v.5,
but I would like to install a later version of word that
would would work with OS X (without classic running like my
V.5 requires). But I also want this later version of word
to be able to open my old v. 5 documents. What version
should I look for that would work with OS X, but still open
my v.5 documents?

Any version of Office/Word after Word 5/5.1 "should" open it with no problem.

If you don't have "too many" w5.1 files it might be advantagous to save in RTF
format copies of the files, just in case.

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[Elliott Roper]

I just installed Mac OS X on my iMac. I have MS Word v.5,
but I would like to install a later version of word that
would would work with OS X (without classic running like my
V.5 requires). But I also want this later version of word
to be able to open my old v. 5 documents. What version
should I look for that would work with OS X, but still open
my v.5 documents?

Both Word v.X and 2004 handle Word 5.1 docs OK. Only those run natively
in OS X.
You are going to *hate* them both. It will take ages for you to get
them working half as well as 5.1a does. 2004 is recently released. I'm
still on v.X out of stinginess. 2004 does Unicode and long filenames,
and has new expanded areas of bloat. You might as well get it in
preference to v.X
I *strongly* recommend "Bend Word to Your Will" by Clive Huggan, which
is his document of the journey he took from Word 5.1
Get it from
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordHomePage.htm

I have been down the same road. Now I am at the point where I can't be
bothered to start Classic at all, and Word 5 is starting to look a bit
grey and needing slippers and a pipe.
It has taken at least 12 months of spitting and fuming. If it were not
for the patient help of people here and Clive's excellent "Bend..", I
reckon the damn thing would have been ex-fenestrated.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Ruth,

You will hate Word 2004 a lot less if the first thing you do is go to
the Word menu and choose Preferences.

Click on the Compatibility section. Adjust "Recommended options for:"
and click the pop-up menu and choose "Word for the Macintosh 5.x"

Then in the preferences click the Save button and choose to "Save Word
Files As" by clicking the pop-up and choosing "Word 4.0-6.0/95
Compatible (RTF)." Use this option if you want to keep your documents
compatible with Word 5.1. If you want to let your documents incorporate
new features since Word 5 then don't change this setting and leave it as
Word Document.

-Jim



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[Jim Gordon MVP]

.... and I almost forgot!

In addition to the things I just posted go to the Tools menu and choose
Customize>Menus and Toolbars.

There's a checkbox there for toolbars that are Word for Macintosh 5.1.
Check that and click OK and you'll get the Word 5.1 toolbars.

-Jim

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