On a Mac you can’t insert a Drawing Canvas but it does recognise one if the document was created in Windows. In a Drawing canvas on Windows you can nudge the shapes with the keyboard but you can’t use the alignment commands. On a Mac you can only use AutoText via the menu. On Windows you can create and categorise building blocks and use Quick Part previews. On a Mac, you can’t insert or customise content controls, although Word does at least now recognise content controls inserted on Windows. On Windows you can insert and customise a range of content controls. You can only select from built-in fonts themes unless you know how to work in XML with unzipped files. On a Mac you can only create color themes in PowerPoint. On Windows you can easily create color and font themes. When developing templates to run on both platforms these are some of the problems that we’ve come across recently: Themes We are, of course, biased towards Windows, where most of our work is, and there may possibly be some useful features in the Mac version that don’t exist in Windows. Finally Word for Mac 365 has the same version number and looks superficially like Word for Windows 365 but dig a little deeper and it soon becomes apparent that the Mac version is missing many of the most useful features of its Windows cousin.
