For sure, 2011 is ooooooold!!! If I remember rightly, Office 2011 was announced in 2006 and was the first Intel version of Office (for Mac).
Regardless of whether I use Office 2011 or Pages 5.5, I usually have issues when transferring my law assignments over to Office for Windows. Law assignments (using AGLC3 referencing, which is pretty common in Australia) use footnotes heavily.
It's really annoying because I'll make a document in Office 2011 and have to write 'Ibid' to indicate that one footnote is the same as the one above it. Problem? The formatting changes on Windows and Ibids end up being the first footnote for pages, so lecturers say 'THIS IS REALLY AMATEUR MAN!!! YOU CAN'T HAVE AN IBID AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FOOTNOTES BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING OOOOH SAME AS ABOVE, AND THERE'S NOTHING ABOVE!!! IF YOU'RE GONNA GO FUDGING FOOTNOTES THEN AT LEAST GET IT RIGHT YOU FOOL!!!'
After walking away from an angry law lecturer who's damn good at berating people and has 30+ experience interrogating witnesses (*almost crying*) I'll open up the file on my Mac and say 'but it's correct!!! I spent HOURS getting my referencing correct!!' What I do now is write my docs in Mac Office (because it's more accurate than Pages when converting over... often has no issues) then I go into my uni's library the night that the assignment's due and edit it in the library (using THEIR version of Windows so that there can't be any issues). Works, but FFS M$... it's clunky as hell!!
