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Microsoft Word 4+
Create, Edit & Share Documents
Microsoft Corporation
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
This application requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription. Microsoft 365 includes premium Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, 1 TB cloud storage in OneDrive, advanced security, and more, all in one convenient subscription. With Microsoft 365, you get features as soon as they are released ensuring you’re always working with the latest.
Create, edit, collaborate, and share documents using Word for Mac. Now it’s easier than ever to write, design, and work seamlessly across your devices & with others. Share your files and collaborate in real time within a document or edit Office docs attached to emails. Get smart assistance features as soon as they are released in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint so you’re always working with the latest. Whether you’re a blogger, writer, journalist, columnist, student, or a project manager working on documentation, Word is your go-to app for working with documents.
Kickstart your creativity
• Achieve more and enhance your documents with access to a growing catalog of premium templates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Rich formatting and layout options produce beautifully pristine documents on any device including laptops, iPads, and iPhones.
Create with confidence
• Receive spelling, grammar, and stylistic feedback on clarity, conciseness, formality, vocabulary, and more with Microsoft Editor.
• Auto Save documents right to Microsoft OneDrive or another cloud provider to access them on any device and at any time you have internet access.
Accomplish more together
• Whether it’s a school project, sales pitch, or newsletter, seamlessly work with others with real-time co-authoring to bring your ideas and plans together faster.
• Safely share your documents with the click of a button to invite others to edit in real time. Easily manage permissions and see who’s currently working in a document.
• Add comments or assign tasks to people in your group for clean editing and organization.
Learn more about Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based subscription service that brings together premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneDrive, with the best tools for the way people work today. Please visit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2015120 for information on Licensing Terms.
Unlock the full Microsoft Office experience with a qualifying Microsoft 365 subscription for your phone, tablet, PC, and Mac.
Microsoft 365 annual subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your App Store account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. You can manage your subscriptions in your App Store account settings.
This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.
Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms for Microsoft Office. See “License Agreement” link under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.
What’s New
Version 16.88
• Bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Online and local saving on a mac is really buggy
Eventually, when I have word and powerpoint open long enough, saving becomes troublesome. Sometimes I can't get any option to save locally, other times the save dialog won't even appear no matter how I try to save. Sometimes I can work around it by choosing to share. Sometimes that doesn't even work. Most recently, I literally copied my document contents to a mac Pages document, then saved as a Word document from there as a workaround. SUPER frustrating.
Also, when working on documents with others, they updating of changes is at least better than it was before. Before, a conflict in changes would occur that would require one person to create a new document and share that to get back in sync. Now, at least eventually, they can typically get back in sync. However, despite great connection speeds, it can take 10-15 minutes to get back in sync. Not exactly real-time collaboration.
Just too many frustrations for me to not prefer Google docs or mac Pages over Word.
Ugh
I detest nearly everything about this updated "subscription-based" online version of Word. Did they even speak to anyone who uses Word for editing? I hate how the comment function works--it's extra key strokes for me to "send" a comment, extra key strokes if I want to delete a comment, it's super annoying if I type a comment and forget to hit "send" and then go to type another comment and ugh--Word will take me back to the one I forgot to enter and then lose my place in the document. I hate that I have to select "edit comment" in order to type additional information in an old comment-- basically everything takes longer because there are at least two additional key strokes for every comment I want to enter. For someone who is typing multiple comments on every page of a 400 page document, this adds up to a lot of wasted time. And don't even get me started on comments about deleted text that just vanish...Or how Word reverts to the "list" setting when viewing comments that have been resolved, so then you can't see the actual text that's been resolved unless you select "contextual" but then the very next "resolved" comment reverts back to list... again, it's just more time wasted clicking on things. If there were literally ANY program I could use instead I would switch in a heartbeat.
Subscription fees, the new comments format and inability to save
I've had a number of problems with Microsoft Word lately. Unfortunately I feel dependant on the program because it is what I and my clients have used for years. 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). In the latest iteration, the comments section can be hard to follow if you are working on a document with many comments... same with the footnotes. 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... it ruins my workflow and is just an extra and unnecessary step. Also, my latest problem is that I haven't been able to save my files anywhere... 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. 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.
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Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Microsoft Corporation
- Size
- 1.3 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Microsoft Corporation
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Microsoft 365 Personal $69.99
- Microsoft 365 Personal Monthly $6.99
- Microsoft 365 Family $99.99
- Microsoft 365 Family $9.99
- Microsoft Copilot Pro $20.00
- Microsoft 365 Personal $119.99