However, in some cases, the document created on the Mac may not open on the PC. In these cases, you can save the document in a format that will be recognized by Microsoft Word on the PC.

Apple includes a free, basic word processing program called TextEdit on all machines running OS X, its computer operating system. Use TextEdit to open Word documents on your Apple computer.

We’re here to help you recover a unsaved or deleted Word document on your Mac, including how to find the AutoRecovery folder and how to see old versions.

You can encrypt a Microsoft Word document by giving it a password, which anyone who tries to open the document will be required to enter.