Yosemite compatibility with microsoft word 2008

Word for Mac 2008 seemed to work for me. Always advisable to have a current BackUp before you upgrade

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10), i7 500GB 16GB RAM iPhone5 iOS8.1

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Hi Leroy -- you seem to know what you're talking about but I just wanted to confirm; your old copy of Word 2008 worked OK after you did the Yosemite upgrade? As I recall, I found last time that it *didn't* work if I did a clean install and tried to add the program again, but it worked fine if I pulled the old docs and applications off a backup. Does that make sense? I'm not sure if it was Mavericks or my new Air, though.

bill

I Upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks. I launched Word for Mac 2008 after the upgrade. It seemed to work just fine.

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Yes, working fine for me. Upgraded from Mav. to Yosemite.

Thanks to both of you!

Bill

I have a mid-2010 iMac with a bluetooth keyboard and the keyboard does not work with Word 2008 and Yosemite 10.1x. The keyboard works fine otherwise. The bluetooth mouse it also ok, it is just the keyboard that does not work.

I just upgraded toYosemite on my Mac air, and all my 2008 version Word .docx documents have lost formatting and come up all in miniature with a strange work face. I agree this was very scary, as I'm working on dissertation. Luckily, documents were stored in dropbox so I can access on my computer running Mountain Lion, but this needs to be fixed!!! I would be fine with buying the new version of Word if that would solve the problem, but others can't do this. I'm sending Apple a message--hope the rest of you having difficulties do too.

OK, apparently freaked out too soon. After some time, the docx Word documents starting opening with the right formatting, though now I'm still a bit insecure. Maybe it just takes some time for everything to process through new system?? However, the icons are blank (just white) for docx documents now, and that hasn't healed itself. Interesting, there never was a problem with doc documents: either with formatting (opened normally) or with icons, which look normal now.

There has been a better and free alternative to old versions of MS Word and MS Office since forever. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 is the latest version of a free and complete All-In-One document processor, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation, database, & formula software, found here: http://www.openoffice.org

It also reads, writes and translates MS Word, saves in many formats, and is pretty easy to use. It's entirely modern and compatible with all the latest Mac operating systems. Good luck.

The most likely scenario is that the font information or type faces changed, leaving Word without the same setup it used to have, therefor it needed to reformat the document...

An educated guess.

I like Libreoffice also, which is another Openoffice spin off if I recall correctly.

Hi Leroy, I just had a refurbished hard-drive put (by professionals) into the iMac I bought new from the Apple shop in 2008, and am now running Yosemite, with Word 2008, and am bumping into "compatibility mode" issues: can't make changes to Word docs I need to make changes to! So what should I do exactly? Thanks in advance for your assistance you can offer.

I have found that Office 2008 works for everything except it will crash when opening a word document that has track changes turned on.

Maybe track changes is the problem. I put off upgrading to Yosemite until a week or so ago and Word has been locking and crashing on a lot of important documents, but not all... I took my Macbook Pro to the Genius Bar yesterday and after almost 4 hours I had a complete reinstall of Yosemite...and no difference at all re: the Word problem. Grrrr.