#INSERT CONTECTR CONTROL WORD FOR MAC FULL#

I did have a look, and there does not appear to be anything that is designed for that purpose except a thing called 'Word Content Control The one way that you might be able to create them without coding would be if the Office App Store had an Addin to do it. In addition, even if you create them, they cannot currently function the way that they do on Windows Word, primarily because there is (as far as I know) no support for the content control events and xml data store events that are available on Windows. In fact they can be created on Mac Word, but there are no User Interface options to do so in the out-of-the-box product, and there is no support yet for creating them or manipulating them in Mac Word VBA. 'Microsoft Agents' work for Microsoft Support. 'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. Please don't confuse these two different kinds of controls. Just for the record, Content Controls are not Active-X controls.

#INSERT CONTECTR CONTROL WORD FOR MAC FULL#

If you are a Mac user and are negatively affected by lack of cross-platform support for content controls, the place to suggest full implementation is here: Support and explain how not having Mac support affects your ability to deploy Word documents using Word for Windows and how having Mac support would make your Windows experience better: Make a feature request for Content Control

If you are a windows user and find that incomplete support for content controls affects how you build and share your Word documents, please consider posting to the Word for Windows uservoice forum. I can think of at least a half dozen explanations,īut I would not be able to say that any of them are the actual reason. Because we don't work for Microsoft, we can merely speculate as to the reasons why Microsoft does or does not fully implement a given feature across platforms. In this forum you're addressing fellow users of Word.

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