No View Side by Side option on ribbon at all (Word for Mac)

Hi Jake,

Thanks for contacting us and sorry for the inconvenieces,

• Word for Mac does not have the View Side by Side feature that is available in the Windows version. However, you can still view two documents side by side manually by using the split screen feature. To do this, you need to follow these steps:
  1. Open both documents in Word for Mac.
  2. Click and hold the green expansion dot in the top left corner of one of the document windows.
  3. You will see three options: Enter Full Screen, Tile Window to Left of Screen, and Tile Window to Right of Screen.
  4. Choose either Tile Window to Left of Screen or Tile Window to Right of Screen for the first document.
  5. The first document will be resized to half the screen width and height on the side you selected.
  6. You will see all other open windows on the opposite side of the screen.
  7. Click on the other document window to fill the space adjacent to the first document.
• Alternatively, you can use the Split feature to view two parts of the same document at the same time in Word for Mac. To do this, you need to follow these steps⁸:
  1. Open the document that you want to split in Word for Mac.
  2. On the View tab, click Arrange, and then click Split.
  3. A horizontal line will appear across your document window.
  4. Drag the line up or down to adjust the size of each pane.
  5. You can scroll and edit each pane independently.

Ref: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/view-two-word-documents-side-by-side-on-mac/278b1991-61e7-4076-acad-27f7c7ba1902

I hope this helps!

Regards, Sola