There are also various tools like the text highlighting and updated text and font styles that were added into the software to make sure that there are no problems when it comes to drafting your word document.

The biggest highlight is that it has a lot of advanced features like auto line drafting and automatic text wrapping that will make the situation much easier and fast. The Microsoft word 2008 for Mac edition had a lot of significant features that made the system much easy for documenting. All these tools made a significant difference with their release making the office 2008 version much more adaptive to Mac OS X. The package that was released along with the Mac version included Entourage, word, excel, and PowerPoint. If you have VMWare fusion, Parallels, or some other virtualization technology and a windows image, you could install the free Windows Word 2007 Viewer.The Microsoft office 2008 edition for Mac systems had a great advantage that the features that were added along with the Mac version seamlessly worked with any type of Mac systems and did not require special needs to work the software through. Bean should not be considered a replacement for Word, or any other word processor designed for complex documents involving, for example, citations. The user will be warned of this when overwriting a Word 2007 format file not created by Bean, to prevent loss of information. Also lost are highlighting, tables, text lists and advanced paragraph formatting. Please note that due to the limitations of the file format converter, images are lost when opening a native Word 2007 format file in Bean and when saving a rich text document as a Word 2007 format file in Bean.

Bean (free but some limitations) Word 2007 (.docx) support in Bean:īean uses Apple's file conversion services to open and save Word 2007 format files.Open XML File Format Converter for Mac will allow you to open in earlier versions of Office for Mac (not a free solution either, but you may have a copy of an older version).(not a free solution but your mac may have iWorks.) iWorks will open these files, I believe.In addition to the above listed options (OpenOffice is great, BTW):

Office for mac 2007