MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE

Maybe Microsoft should take a little time in introspection, naval gaze and wonder: 'Have we truly made a product worthy of charging money for? Or are we simply sitting on our laurels as the default choice for our customers?' This would do them well Word is buggy, slow and has a cumbersome UI that takes an inordinate amount of time to adapt to. (A silver lining is that this auto-punctuation bug has gotten me dictating/writing my novels on my phone now, which has made me even more productive.)ĥ stars if the auto-punctuation bug is fixed.īuggy, like almost everything from Microsoft Still, it's great and luckily the issue is only on the desktop app and not on the mobile versions. Tick the box to turn it off and it magically turns back on. My only complaint is that I cannot turn of auto-punctuation in the dictation settings. And the bonus of all bonuses is the dictation feature, which is superb across all devices. Syncing isn't an issue at all-thank God it's not dependent on iCloud or Dropbox. The experience from one device to the next has the continuity I've been missing from every other solution I've tried.

MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE

I usually use other software to write my books (Scrivener, Drafts) but am now making the switch to writing in Word, specifically because I can access my WIP on any of my devices-iphone, ipad, macbook, imac-without paying for multiple licenses or going through mulitple headaches.

I'm a writer and am very much impressed with how far Word for Mac has come. Wonderful, especially for dictation, but problems with auto-punction I haven't tried reaching out to whatever customer support exists (does it exist? it should for the continual payments), but I'm feeling pretty frustrated and about ready to bail and convert my business into one based on Google Docs right about now. I just have to turn my computer off and hope that they appear as autorecovered files, otherwise they remain as 'untitled document 3' or whatever. Also, my latest problem is that I haven't been able to save my files anywhere. it ruins my workflow and is just an extra and unnecessary step. I don't like that you have to complete one comment before working on another and that to reopen a comment to edit it, you have to click into and select edit. In the latest iteration, the comments section can be hard to follow if you are working on a document with many comments.

I'm not a fan of the subscription-based payment model (I much preferred the one-off-license for the single product rather than continual payments for continual updates). Unfortunately I feel dependant on the program because it is what I and my clients have used for years. I've had a number of problems with Microsoft Word lately. Subscription fees, the new comments format and inability to save You guys =used to be the best at this stuff, now you have wacky flaws without solutions. Please go through your systems and fix things before taing them live. There is a not setting to get ride of it, control the bell ring or stop the pop-up. I have something on my sclendar every 15 to 30 minutes. Now I get a bell ring and pop-up on my screen every time I have something on my calendar. Ithis is not a Zoom app, it is your outlook app.

It generated an outlook app on my tool bar. It asked me if I want to merge with Outlook 365. This means, every time I begin a paragrpah or senetnce, I have to delete the first letter, which is not at the end of a sentence and go back to the begining of teh sentence and fix the first word.Īlso, I am using Zoom, as are many people these days.

When I being a sentence, the capital letter at the start of the sentence gets jumped ahead of the curser, with auot correct changing the secon letter of the sentence from lower case to capitol and them fixing the spelling of the first word. There is a clitch when I use this on Mac. I noted a few issues and oen did not get fixed. Many months ago you gave users a chance to try a new version of Outlook 365. I tried everything, but the others aren't nearly as familiar and comfortable to me. Now, in the interest of recurring revenue, I have to 'subscribe.' 'Subscribing' to MS Word was a hurdle I had to get over. BEFORE, I could buy it once and get all subsequent updates. I would appreciate if MS would lay-off and just provide the software, like before. When I want to choose 'Autosave' to protect myself from losing in-process documents, it puts pop-ups telling me I need 'Microsoft 360' or whatever, and there are other related foils that confuse me and make me think I can't have a fully functioning Word version, like before, unless I have a Microsoft (MS) account and/or do what Microsoft wants with respect to its cloud service. HOWEVER, Microsoft tries to WEDGE its cloud service into my work-flow and it's confusing and annoying. I finally bit the bullet and subscribed, because that's the only way to get it now.

Microsoft word for mac review