Word Processing: Mellel vs. Word for mac
I have pages which is great for what it does. But I need a real work horse for long form documents like stories, essays and perhaps even book length documents. Word is what I know. But I am hearing good things about mellel. Does anyone have any experience with mellel or have any opinions about the two.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
sam,
You really don't need to post the same question twice in order to get an answer.
I'm not sure why you don't consider Pages a "workhorse" or suitable for long documents. I wrote a book manuscript with it that's well over 400 pages long, and I don't experience any slowness, bogging down, or seizing up. If you've already got Pages, and it's doing what you need it to do, why invest in something else on the assumption that Pages can't do the job.
-Dennis
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I need to install Word for Mac on my MacBook OS X Lion 10.7.4, but there are two problems: 1) Microsoft sells only Office, not the individual programs, and 2) I don't have enough memory to do so (2 GB). Any suggesions? I'm currently using Pages, and it's worthless. Should I install more memory and buy Office for Mac? Is there another decent word processing program (preferably downloadable) that will convert my documents to Word?
Thank you so much for your help and suggestions!I woud buy a 4 GB RAM package and install it. RAM is cheap these days and the additional RAM would also improve the performance of your other programs as well. I have used MS Office for Mac as well as other free downloads, i.e., Open Office and Libre Office. I have found that Open Office anf Libre Office perform just as well as MS Office and, because they are a free download also save you money. Another advantage is that they also contain a database, which MS Office doesn't have. They allow you to save files in MS format as well as standard text format. I ave also used Pages and feel it is satisfactory, although a little clunky to use. If you feel MS Office is the only program for you, then buy it and install it. You really should consider adding the additional RAM as it will improve the performance of all your applications.
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Can I use Word for Mac 2004 to write basic solver/Macros programs?
I just bought the new macbook aluminum unibody. I am in college and am taking computer programming in fall, I need to be able to write basic programs that utilize macros and solver. I spoke with one mac person who told me I would need to buy parallels, the microsoft OS and then microsoft word for Microsoft OS.
However, that costs upwards of 200$ for a class I am only going to be taking for 2 months. Someone else has told me that the 2004 version of Word for Mac has macros abilities on it (those that are not on the current version, but that the 2011 version will have). Can I just use the 2004 version? Or does anyone have other suggestions?Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.) -
Maverick: doc saving function in Word for Mac
I just downloaded Maverick for my 2010 iMac. I'm happy with it but for one problem: saving documents in my Word for Mac 2008 is a royal pain.
Instead of the good old one-step save process under Snow Leopard's Word for Mac, Word/Maverick now requires a three-step save process: a "Save as" window followed by a "Replace" window and sometimes followed by a window saying "X doc already exists. Would you like to replace it?"
Well, duh. Anyone else having this problem? Any fixes for it? I looked for a patch from Microsoft but no luck.
Thanks and Happy New Year.Hi,
Since you are using Office for Mac 2011, I suggest you post this question to Office for Mac forum, since the current forum is mainly for Office for Windows.
Office for Mac forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
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Word for mac keeps stopping, word for mac keeps stopping
word for mac keeps stopping, word for mac keeps stopping
I am trying to make some business cards in the program provided and when I copy it starts thinking and working and then stops.
This cause me to wait and then have to do the hole process over agin with the same happening the next time.That sounds like a Microsoft issue, please re-post in the Office for Mac Product Forums.
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Lost use of word for mac 2004 when upgraded to mountain lion OSX
IVe just upgraded to Mountain Lion OSX and lost use of word for Mac 2004. how can i get in to work again
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
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And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
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Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.) -
I updated to Yosemite, now my laptop keyboard does not work in MS Word for Mac. Help!
I updated to Yosemite, now my laptop keyboard does not work in MS Word for Mac. Help! Any suggestions for fixing this?
Did you ever get a solution to your problem? Because I am having the same problem. I was actually in the middle of using Word when the keyboard stopped working. But it works in other apps, including in Excel.
Thing is that my laptop just got back from Apple for repairs and they replaced everything but the display - including the hard drive.
So not only do I have plenty of hard drive space, but it should be virus and error free otherwise.
I have only installed a few programs and redownloaded some of my files from places like Dropbox, but otherwise is essentially a new system.
Oh - and it came with Yosemite, so I did not upgrade to Yosemite and still Word doesn't work.
I've always had trouble getting Word to play nice with my Mac but that was also with the old, full hard drive.
This is a fresh install. And since I lost all my files, I only had like 1 old file I have downloaded from email and accessed and was in the process of
creating a new file when it crashed. I got no error, the keyboard just stopped working (to type). I also cannot even get Word > Preferences to even open,
so it is completely unresponsive.
I did a Google search and under the Microsoft communities two suggestions to that person were that there may be multiple copies installed -
I have only the one - and that one is in the wrong place - again, I only have the one and it installed to the Hard drive (visible in Launchpad / Apps).
Another suggestion was that there was some problem with the updates. I ran updates and they installed fine. That helper suggested that the user
may have had different updates that worked for the other Office apps (Excel, PPT etc.) but not Word and that was at least part, if not all of his problem,
but all my Office apps show the same update version 12.3.6, so that cannot be the issue with me.
I've not yet tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but as I got no errors on the original install or updates, I'm not sure if that would fix it.
I've found that Mac just doesn't play nice with some programs at all.
And even though I have a factory installed version of Yosemite on a new, fresh hard drive, even when I booted up, my iPhoto app (which is empty) crashed. I am not sure if my iPhone or iPad was charging at the time, but I don't think so. iPhoto that I still have not even used has crashed several more times since, most notably when plugging in my iPhone / iPad to charge, namely when I declined to upload photos (by default) to DropBox. That may not be related at all, but thus far seems the only other problem I have encountered until this Word problem.
I'm on a MacBook Pro, Sept. 2009, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 factory installed from Apple repairs running Office: 2008 for Mac (Home and Student edition).
Please advise if you found a resolution and what it was.
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Can someone explain in plain English why I no longer can use my favorite word processing program after installing Lion? I know it has something to do with Rosetta which is Greek to me - what is it? What are the politics behind it? Is it financial? Does it have to do with "turf war" between Apple and Microsoft?
Now I will have to learn how to use the Textedit program which on the surface looks rather anemic. All my files ending with .doc can no longer be read. However, I can still access them through Time Machine.
Are there any decent word processing programs that are compatible with Lion? Any free ones?As it happens mine is Word for Mac 2004. Well, I followed your very helpful recommendation and uploaded LibreOffice which looks just like Word. This program also allowes you to convert all the Word 2004 files into a readable document with an .odt extension. If there was a way I would give you 1000 points for your help.
Max -
Conversion from .docx to Word for Mac OR Pages
I'm using a 2009 MacBookPro, IWorks/Pages and 2004 Word for Mac. I'm currently in download ****, courtesy of Microsoft.
I wrote a document using Word for Mac (2004). I sent it to a friend for editing, she returned it in a .docx format. When I tried to read it, I couldn't. THe error said it "Couldn't find a converter for this file format." It offered a download. I download both the updates for Word and the converter. NADA.
I have Pages which is supposed to read all these formats, yet it's not doing it. I've tried the MS route. How can I read this timely document? It's only 1 hour away from White Collar. Help!According to p34 of the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf:
*Opening a Document from Another Application*
You can create a new Pages document by importing a document created in another
application, such as Microsoft Office 2007 or AppleWorks. Pages can import the
following file formats: plain text (.txt), Rich Text Format (.rtf and .rtfd), AppleWorks 6
word processing (.cwk), and Microsoft Word (.doc).
It does not say it can open .docx
Have you tried opening it with OpenOffice (free)? I think TextEdit might be able to open it as well as it saves to it.
Try this site:
http://www.docx2doc.com/
Peter -
I have Pages which is great for many applications, but I do miss using word on my p.c.. So, I was going to get word for mac, but a friend of mind recommended Mellel. Anyone have any thoughts? I will be using the product for business correspondence and long form documents too.
Sam - try to avoid double posting, among other things, it dilutes your answers. There are lots of things to like about Mellel, and Nisus, Mariner Write, and the list goes on. The great thing is, they all are shareware so download them and see how you like them.
I weaned myself away from Word 2 years ago when Pages was first introduced and I actually haven't used it at all in the last year. At one time I was a slave to Office, especially macros, but with a little thought and planning I was able to reproduce everything. Today my only use of Office is Excel. -
Hardware - new iMac 21.7, Software Mirosoft word for Mac 2011.
I presently adjust the text to allow two pages on my iMac monitor.
If I add a second monitor can I have two different pages on it so I can
see four consecutive pages (e.g. pages 31 and 32 on the iMac and pages
33 and 34 on the second monitor)? I am sure I can move items like
pictures from one monitor to the other, but will the word processing
software indicated above work like I would like it to?why would one of the pages be split?
Because you'd stretch the Word window across both displays and the screen bezels would be larger than the page split. The page spacer in Word is much smaller than any bezel I've seen, so the two bezels would cause it to break up a page somewhere. -
What the ****.
OK, I try to change a template using Word for Mac version 14.3.4 2011 edition.
I make a change to the template but am unable to save the darned thing to the template folder; it asks for a file name like it's a new document. I want to change the blasted template but if I can't save it as a modified template, I've accomplished nothing.
Does anyone have a solution?
ThanksSupport for Microsoft Office for Mac
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Hello. On my MacBook Air late 2013 model I am having a problem with Microsoft office word for Mac where the window for the document becomes all gray and I can not see anything that I have typed or any menus for it and also windows will sometimes dissapear and I am having truble getting them back. If anyone has anyideas of what is going on or could even help me thank you.
Glad that helped.
As time goes by (months or years), keep your eyes on how long Microsoft continues to support Office 2011 for Mac. Eventually you should consider Office 365 or Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. -
i use word for mac & keep getting error message "microsoft sync services has encountered a problem & needs to close. tell m/soft about this prob" even if i tick send to m/soft and turn computer off & restart it just keeps reappearing repeatedly?
i use word for mac & keep getting error message "microsoft sync services has encountered a problem & needs to close. tell m/soft about this prob" even if i tick send to m/soft and turn computer off & restart it just keeps reappearing repeatedly?
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Issues with Microsoft Word for mac closing when I try to open old or newly downloaded documents
When I download a document from my professor, or try to open an older document, my word automatically quits. If it's already closed and I try to open a document, it will show the dot at the bottom of the icon that it's loading to open but it quickly disappears and quits itself. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or know what I can do to fix it? Thanks.
MacBook Pro 13'' 2011
Microsoft Word for mac 2011
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better yet, try this solution:
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I have Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, version 14.3.1. When I try to open a document, an error occurs, says file type is "blocked from opening in this version." This was NOT immediately after a version update. Any ideas? Thank you.
Take a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953266
If that doesn't help, I'd suggest you take up the question in Microsoft's own forums or with Microsoft support.
Regards.
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