Mellel is full-featured and even lighter than Pages, which is impressive, but the implementation of the features is unique, so it is not ideal in terms of compatibility. Microsoft Word feels slow and lacks the performance of its Windows counterpart.

When working on a Mac environment, Pages is usually lighter than Microsoft Word and does a good job at converting documents, even though it lacks features. And it feels lightweight, despite having so many features. The results show that Word for Windows is superior in memory usage to all other software. I used the latest version of all the software below. The documents were very different, some had tables, others lots of fields and cross-references. The table below shows how much memory (in MB) each of the software used to open a Word file with the number of pages shown in the first column. I recently ran a test on memory usage with several documents, on different word processors, that showed me exactly that.

The Windows version is a fine piece of software that has no parallel. Mac users complain about Microsoft Office because it is bloated and heavy, and that is indeed true, but for the Mac version. But the Windows version is more polished and provides much better performance. There is Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the features are almost all there. But the thing is, Microsoft Office for Mac does not come close to Microsoft Office for Windows in many respects. There is, of course, Microsoft Office for Mac. And the fact is that I like Microsoft Office as well, as it provides a package of full-featured polished software. As everybody uses Microsoft Office, I simply cannot use something else if I want to keep 100% compatibility. I depend on Microsoft Office for work and for academic purposes. I can use Windows PCs exclusively, but I cannot afford to use Mac only because of Office. The single thing that prevented me from definitively moving to a Mac is Microsoft Office. For the last 12 years, I have had both Windows PCs and Macs (simultaneously).

Microsoft word not optimized for mac