MS Word on a MAC - HELP!

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Can any kind Guru please help me?

Most of my use of MS Word is in downloading a formatted online response which is output into Word format. This comprises in a large part a Table that can run over a couple pages.

When opening this in Word 2007 under XP it behaves as I want it to. I'm trying to divest myself of all MS apps so that I can also ditch XP. So I now have Word for Mac 2011 - but I'm having problems.

Problem 1: How do I force Word:Mac 2011 to open a document in Print Layout View rather than Web Layout?

Problem 2: When I open these downloaded response forms under XP, they open as they are intended with a fairly generous left and right margins of about 3cm. But.... when opened in Word:Mac 2011, the Table is the full width of the page - irrespective of whatever I try. Even cut-n-pasting the Table from the opened document into another with set margins still results in the Table going full width.

This is seriously doing my head in. I hate word at the best of times. Wordperfect circa 1992 was far better than this **** :bang:

Thanks for reading. Any help very gratefully received.
 
You've looked at Preferences, to see if there is anything there that can be changed I assume .I wonder if the problem is simply Word 2011 works differently to word 2007. A friend of mine recently got a new Mac and the newer version of Word behaved differently to the one on her earlier model.

I'm not a great MS Word fan , that's the reason I opted for iWork rather than MS Office. You could try downloading "Pages" from the app store, it only £14.00. It seems to handle word docs happily as far as I can see. You may then be able to reformat the docs to your liking.

Lotus Ami Pro was a great word processor. Pity IBM killed it when they bought Lotus
 
I already use Pages and it totally trashes the formatting within these Word documents. I just need to find a solution that gets me away from XP :(
 
If you don't get any more replies here you could try Mac Forums and see if anyone there can help.
 
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