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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1576066" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. It's possible to get Word/Mac 6.0 to work on a recent Intel-based Mac using an emulator like SheepShaver. And it's possible to get a copy of Word/PC 6.0 to work on a recent Intel-based Mac using a virtualization program like Parallels or Fusion. But what's the point?</p><p></p><p>You can get a recent Intel-based Mac, and the very latest copy of Microsoft Office:</p><p><a href="http://www.mactopia.com" target="_blank">Microsoft Office for Mac | Office For Mac</a></p><p>and though you can no longer open Word 4 and earlier documents in the latest version of Word, you can still open Word 5 and 6 documents if you use the Open dialog box within Word, and the Visual Basic macro language is still the same also.</p><p></p><p>Note that while LibreOffice, and the other similar OpenOffice-based suites, are very nice clones of Microsoft Office, they don't use Visual Basic for macros. So your existing macros created in Word wouldn't work in LibreOffice. I also don't know how old of a Microsoft Word file their translators can handle. So, in your case, an OpenOffice-based alternative probably won't be satisfactory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1576066, member: 190607"] I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. It's possible to get Word/Mac 6.0 to work on a recent Intel-based Mac using an emulator like SheepShaver. And it's possible to get a copy of Word/PC 6.0 to work on a recent Intel-based Mac using a virtualization program like Parallels or Fusion. But what's the point? You can get a recent Intel-based Mac, and the very latest copy of Microsoft Office: [url=http://www.mactopia.com]Microsoft Office for Mac | Office For Mac[/url] and though you can no longer open Word 4 and earlier documents in the latest version of Word, you can still open Word 5 and 6 documents if you use the Open dialog box within Word, and the Visual Basic macro language is still the same also. Note that while LibreOffice, and the other similar OpenOffice-based suites, are very nice clones of Microsoft Office, they don't use Visual Basic for macros. So your existing macros created in Word wouldn't work in LibreOffice. I also don't know how old of a Microsoft Word file their translators can handle. So, in your case, an OpenOffice-based alternative probably won't be satisfactory. [/QUOTE]
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