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"Microsoft Word for Mac 2001", I have used Word for PC for years, only because I had to for office compatability in the PC system at work, but have always preferred Macintosh, though Jobs' NExt Computer word processing using Write-Now was by far the best computer yet. (Don't know what a NExt Unix-based computer was? Look into where Jobs was after first leaving Apple).
But for Word 2001 for MAC-complete compatibility with PC Word documents was promised, but I find that completely untrue. For example, the F7 key does not activate spell check in Word for Macintosh as in the PC program, at least not in my installation, and I can't find a keyboard equivalent for it to add on the Mac. Several steps have to be mouse activated rather than keyboard equivalents.
The greatest disappointment, however, is that WORD 2001 FOR MAC HAS TO RUN ON OS-9 AND APPARENTLY WON'T RUN ON OS 10.3, so it has to have OS-9 boot up every time you open a document or Word 2001 program.
Another downside was that my installed printer wouldn't work with OS-9, after I had finally gotten it to work with a Brother multifunction printer, scanner, fax, copier by downloading a driver update, but that is another frustrating story in that the driver date apparently preceded the printer manufacture date, but nobody bothered to include it in the printer software package coming with the printer. So then I had to install a printer driver to run off the OS 9 in order to print a document generated on Microsoft Word 2001.
It also bugs me the way Word X demo copy keeps popping up wanting me to order it, and I still don't know how to get rid of the demo copy that came on my new EMac.
Why did I get Word 2001 in the first place? Because I read on a review that people had trouble printing from Word for OS X!!!! I thought that Word 2001 might be more stable and have fewer bugs by now, but it isn't working for me, and I'm knuckling under and ordering Word for OS-X. Word 2001 does have a wonderful dictionary feature (though still mouse oriented only as far as I can tell) where one only has to put the cursor on any word, and click the dictionary icon, and the definition pops up. A keyboard equivalent would be wonderfully handy. So my chief complaint is that there are too many mouse oriented actions in the program rather than keyboard, it DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE TRUE FULL COMPATABILITY, (though it will open PC Word documents), it has to run on OS-9, and has to print through OS-9 drivers. I just hope I can get some money back on Word for Mac 2001 for the wasted effort of having to learn the hard way because it did not work as advertised.