Word 2011 Mac Problem?

Hi people; my Macbook Pro (not retina, currently on Yosemite 10.10.2) started having Microsoft Word 2011 issues today after I downloaded a word document from my english teacher and opened it. It was a mac doc, not a windows one and my word hasn't had any issues until now. The icons have gone weird and old-fashioned looking in the tool bar at the top, and so have the text colour and text highlight buttons (along with the "more colours" option). It also doesn't spell check correctly, but you can still click on it (it just doesn't pick up incorrect words, like "LKJLKJLKJ" for example).
Not sure really what is happening here, and there might be some more problems I haven't noticed, but please help me if you can. THANKS!!!

Ok actually it works now

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Word 2011 for mac wont open on pc

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Hi,
I'm a bit late but I'm faced the same problem too :
- when you try to open a Word Document (.doc) saved with Word 2011 Mac, you get the mswrd632 error with Word 2002 (or later)
- even with the Microsoft Fix it does not work.
Solution :
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See the link : http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/setting-compatibility-preferences-in-word- for-mac-.html
Change the combo "recommanded options For" to Microsoft Word X 2000/2004
- Go To Save As again, save the document under a new one. Do not just do the save command, it won't work.
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Problems opening word files with Word 2011 from a Windows 2012 server volume

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DHodges wrote:
Thanks; this last reply came closest to 'solving' the issue. While I selected font sub, it at first had no affect on the document.
I then went back to prefs and set the compatability dropdown from 'Custom' (where it had defaulted) to 'Word 2004-2007', assuming these docs were created from a recent past Windows.
I 'Saved As' a Word for Mac " .docm "
Whoa... the extensions mean something. Your original problem (document shows bold, italic, underline, but tables and other complex formatting are lost) sounds as though the document was being exported as a .RTF, a Rich Text Format file. If you save as a .DOCM, that's a Word Macro Enabled Document. Regular Word 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 docs are .DOCX. Regular Word 97 through 2004 docs are .DOC. You need to save that document as a .DOCX or a .DOC or you're gonna have problems later.
- and the documents appear normal (though I had to switch one to 'Portrait' as it for some reason wanted to display in landsacpe.
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Word 2011 for Mac Did Not Save My Work despite many save presses. Why?

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Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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