I had Word 2008 for Mac on my Mac running just fine for years until my antivirus started complaining that it was not safe, so I upgraded to Office 2016 for Mac about two months ago. Per the warning message, double check the formatting and appearance of your document just in case somethingĭid change with it before you submit your document anywhere. You will get a box that pops up letting you know that you are converting to an online XML file available on the newest versions of Word and that some of the originalįormatting on your document may be affected. Top option Word Document (.docx) This is the file format you originally tried to save it as.

Once it's opened, go to the drop down menu again and select 'Save As' and select file format drop down again and select the Reopen Word and in the drop down menu select 'Open Recent.' Select the document you just saved. It will save your document in Compatibility Change the file format to Word 97-2004 (.doc) Click save. I found a way to work around it for now until they fix this bug.Ĭlick on the drop down menu and select 'Save As.' Then look for the File Format box in the lower right hand corner of the Save As box you should be in. The other and was afraid I changed some settings in the process without knowing? I Has anyone had the problem after working in I-Cloud? Could the I-Cloud settings have made some universal change? I had dragged things into i-cloud to try to get them to transfer from one drive to I thought it was just my set up because I am trying to migrate documents on a Seagate drive that was not ex-fat formatted and the issue there on the MAC is that it opens only a Read Only copy of anything saved on an external drive It also shows the message that docx is the xml-based format that is used and it 'cannot store VBA macro code.' It hasīeen going on all week. Will not do the 'Save As' and it states at the bottom the 'recommend compatibility issues' check.

The SAME drive will open Word Documents on the MAC and save the changes but it

I have tried opening my Word documents on the PC from an external drive formatted with the ex-fat file formatting and those documents can 'Save As' on the PC.

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