'Upgrade' from Yosemite 10.10 to El Capitan 10.11 question
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Don't mock me but I'm happily using Yosemite 10.10 on my iMac. Now I'm getting warnings from Google that I need to update to 10.11 at least to continue getting Chrome updates.
Does anybody know whether, if I do update to El Capitan, I'll lose the ability to use Word from Microsoft Office 2011, which I'm also happily using?
Apple is constantly badgering me to download Catalina but I gather I won't be able to use Word if I do. I've got no inherent objection to using Notes or whatever Mac's word processing software is called these days but all my docs are in Word and there are a hell of a lot of them.
At the very least, if I do go ahead with these updates, is there a way of converting old Word docs to new Notes ones?
Thanks for your patience, I am old.
Does anybody know whether, if I do update to El Capitan, I'll lose the ability to use Word from Microsoft Office 2011, which I'm also happily using?
Apple is constantly badgering me to download Catalina but I gather I won't be able to use Word if I do. I've got no inherent objection to using Notes or whatever Mac's word processing software is called these days but all my docs are in Word and there are a hell of a lot of them.
At the very least, if I do go ahead with these updates, is there a way of converting old Word docs to new Notes ones?
Thanks for your patience, I am old.
Do you have any more details on your iMac? theres quite a lot of different models, a brief spec would help as well.
I presume the issue with your copy of Word is its a 32Bit application, which as you state won't run in Catalina. If you want to continue using 32 bit apps then Mojave is the last 32bit compatible OS.
Pages is the MacOS word equivalent. It can open and import Word Documents, pretty well in my experience, although I believe it can be a little hit and miss for complicated documents. You can also save in Word format should you wish.
I presume the issue with your copy of Word is its a 32Bit application, which as you state won't run in Catalina. If you want to continue using 32 bit apps then Mojave is the last 32bit compatible OS.
Pages is the MacOS word equivalent. It can open and import Word Documents, pretty well in my experience, although I believe it can be a little hit and miss for complicated documents. You can also save in Word format should you wish.
If I can change my old Word docs to Pages (sorry, don't know where I got Notes from!) then I'd be perfectly happy to go straight to Catalina. I don't need to do all of them all at once. In fact I may only need the odd few in reality. I just don't want to find myself locked out of them.
Does this transferability apply to Excel docs as well?
Thanks as ever for any help, it's massively appreciated.
Does this transferability apply to Excel docs as well?
Thanks as ever for any help, it's massively appreciated.
JimbobVFR said:
Pages is the MacOS word equivalent. It can open and import Word Documents, pretty well in my experience, although I believe it can be a little hit and miss for complicated documents. You can also save in Word format should you wish.
How does it import Word docs? I've just opened Pages and can't see a menu item that might do that.As it's got a fusion drive, be careful about going too far up the MacOS versions as some of the later ones will simply make heavy use of the latest SSD speeds and older machines with fusion drives (with the small, slower SSD) may end up running much slower than your current OS.
If it's just Chrome, then try one of the other Chromium offerings to see if they'll still work (Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.) - I'd usually recommend staying away from Google Chrome due to the way it worms it's auto-update mechanism into the OS, and makes it difficult to fully remove.
If it's just Chrome, then try one of the other Chromium offerings to see if they'll still work (Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.) - I'd usually recommend staying away from Google Chrome due to the way it worms it's auto-update mechanism into the OS, and makes it difficult to fully remove.
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