I am working on a document in Word 2010 for Windows that will be sent


to a user running Word 2011 on a Mac.

The document just fits on 1 page on my Windows machine(s), but when I
email it to the 2011 user and then open it on the Mac, it places the
last two lines of the document on the second page.

If I scale it to 96% in Page Setup it fits on one page.

I've checked the margins, the font and font sizes and everything
matches. I even checked that the Mac's default printer is the same
printer as my Windows machine.

Is this a known issue with 2010 vs. 2011 or is there some setting I
need to change on the Windows side so that the document will look the
same on both systems?

Thanks, and Happy New Year!

This is also being discussed in the old Word newsgroups. Basically, Word always depends on the printer driver when it lays out documents, and different operating systems make use of different drivers. Creating a PDF would be the easiest approach.

For more, also take a look at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/textreflow.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Creating a PDF has it's merits, but at the moment we are in the editing mode. My daughter and I worked on the resume on my Windows machine and got it to fit on one page. I then emailed it to her for some further editing and that is when we found that the Mac split it into 2 pages.

Since she will be emailing it out and posting it on application websites, she will need to scale it down to fit on one page before creating the PDF.

Yes, that will ensure that the document will display/print on one page for all recipients, but it will also be uneditable. If she sends the original Word document back to me for review/editing, I might be able to get it to fit on one page, but she might have to scale it again to get it back to one page before creating the PDF. For example, one version fit on one page on my Windows machine. She scaled it down to 96% to fit on one page on her Mac and emailed it back to me. I opened it up on a different Windows machine and I can fit 4 more lines on one page. If I send that back to her, she'll need to scale it down even further.

She is a college senior applying for grad schools and assitantships. The resume evolves as she completes internships and other activities so I think we may be in editing mode for a while. It just a pain to have it appear differently as we pass it back and forth.

Thanks!

Of course, the important thing is that you send the file, once editing is complete, in PDF format. Good luck.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional