Is there a way to show xml tags in a Word doc?

[Scott]

My partner and I just bought the Microsoft Office:mac 2008 Home & Student Edition because I have to use Word xml files at work (on a PC running XP and Office XP/04) and would like to be able to work at home once in a while (G5 1-y-o MacBook running OS 10.4.8) without having to sign out a clunky PC laptop (I commute by bike or train, so I don't need any extra weight). In order to get my work done, I need to be able to see the xml tags in the documents (and the box said this version of Word supported xml documents), but when I open the files at home on my MacBook they lose the tags. At work when we adopted the new system (old nonprofit publisher that still relies on WordPerfect to some extent to store vital text, which is scary, so you see what I'm dealing with...) we had to go into Word preferences and add-in an xml template and check off a box to show xml tags in documents. Of course, all the menu options on the Mac version of the same program are just slightly different and I can't figure it out for the life of me. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Scott:

This version of Word does not support XML "editing".

It will edit documents that are in XML, but you cannot edit the XML.
Microsoft is being rather disingenuous in their claims on the packaging...

I am afraid I have no good you need the PC Version of Word 2007, and
you need either an Intel Macintosh or a PC to run it on.

Hope this helps

My partner and I just bought the Microsoft Office:mac 2008 Home & Student
Edition because I have to use Word xml files at work (on a PC running XP and
Office XP/04) and would like to be able to work at home once in a while (G5
1-y-o MacBook running OS 10.4.8) without having to sign out a clunky PC laptop
(I commute by bike or train, so I don't need any extra weight). In order to
get my work done, I need to be able to see the xml tags in the documents (and
the box said this version of Word supported xml documents), but when I open
the files at home on my MacBook they lose the tags. At work when we adopted
the new system (old nonprofit publisher that still relies on WordPerfect to
some extent to store vital text, which is scary, so you see what I'm dealing
with...) we had to go into Word preferences and add-in an xml template and
check off a box to show xml tags in documents. Of course, all the menu options
on the Mac version of the same program are just slightly different and I can't
figure it out for the life of me. Any help would be appreciated.

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[CyberTaz]

On 2/3/08 6:01 AM, in article C3CBD536.F6F0%[email protected], "John McGhie"

I am afraid I have no good you need the PC Version of Word 2007, and
you need either an Intel Macintosh or a PC to run it on.

<snip>

Perhaps not optimal, but one other option - Word 2007/Windows XP can also be
run in Virtual PC 7 on a non-Intel Mac... I do it all the time It depends
on the complexity of the docs & other obvious factors that impact
performance speed, but it's certainly "usable".

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Phillip Jones]

Also if you bought or are buying an MacIntel Machine. (Mac with Intel
chip). Install Parallels the Windows. (Until Ms get their act together
on Vista avoid like the plague) The buy the Office2007 version.

As for the comment one of the people responding said about Ms being
disingenuous, is nothing new. That's typical about MS.

They have elevated the practice of talking out of the "both sides of
their moth at the same time" to an art form. You can take MS word (not
the product but what they say) with grain of salt.

On 2/3/08 6:01 AM, in article C3CBD536.F6F0%[email protected], "John McGhie"


<snip>

Perhaps not optimal, but one other option - Word 2007/Windows XP can also be
run in Virtual PC 7 on a non-Intel Mac... I do it all the time It depends
on the complexity of the docs & other obvious factors that impact
performance speed, but it's certainly "usable".

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[little_creature]

What about going for some freeward xml editor? I haven't been usisng any on
Mac, just on PC, so I cannot give you any reference, but google gives you
lot of opportunities. Just search keywoards like:
mac free xml editor

 

[Scott]

Thanks for the advice. Before purchasing Office:mac 08 (which we only did after finding a good deal), my work-around was TextMate (almost-freeware after a trial month, but after the month was up, I was happy to pay for it). It's great and can handle a lot more than xml (in case I change jobs. I'm not willing to spend several hundred more dollars on software to turn my mac into a pc (eeew) so I can run another version of Word on it, especially after just having purchased a version of Word that I am partially unable to use as it was advertised I would. I guess I was just hoping for too much.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Is there any way that you can work over the Internet and connect to your
office-based machine using RDC (there's a version for Mac) ? If so, no need
for any virtual machine or Windows software, or even Word on your Mac. But
you have to be able to leave the machine on at work and you need enough
bandwidth and so on.

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Thanks for the advice. Before purchasing Office:mac 08 (which we only did
after finding a good deal), my work-around was TextMate (almost-freeware
after a trial month, but after the month was up, I was happy to pay for it).
It's great and can handle a lot more than xml (in case I change jobs. I'm
not willing to spend several hundred more dollars on software to turn my mac
into a pc (eeew) so I can run another version of Word on it, especially
after just having purchased a version of Word that I am partially unable to
use as it was advertised I would. I guess I was just hoping for too much.