[Ti] [OT] Microsoft Office : PC versus Mac

[Robert Ameeti]

The below is accurate and spoken from a man of experience. There are issues. But they are few.

>I say they are 95% compatible.  I think that often Microsoft does not understand their own file formats completely enough to port them seamlessly across platforms.
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>I work in an environment that is probably 99% Windows. I receive many documents created under Windows.  Word documents are mostly OK except for drawings embedded in them.  It may be just the drawings that start out as Visio things, I don't know, but often the rectangles are missing and things like that.
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>PowerPoint files are probably the most incompatible.  I think that Micosoft uses a lot of their own non standard characters in powerpoint.  So I see differences here.  On one common template that I see a lot, our company logo comes out upside down.  I can flip it on the master slide, bet we are still not 100%.
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>I can't recall seeing any problems with Excel.  Microsoft seems to have the format under control enough to be compatible.
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>     Sherman

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Robert Ameeti
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