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$yregnar86

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I know this is kind of pointless since i'm running parallels with Windows 7 running along side of OS X but is it possible to run microsoft office "for mac" inside windows 7.

For example I swipe over to the desktop that has windows 7 up and running. I'm wanting to record some information "data" from this windows program but I don't want to swipe back and forth from viewing the data and then back to the document editor to type it down. Hope I'm making it clear.
 

roadbloc

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I believe Parallels has some sort of 'unified' mode where you can run your OS X and Windows Apps together in the OS X interface.
 

crjackson2134

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I know this is kind of pointless since i'm running parallels with Windows 7 running along side of OS X but is it possible to run microsoft office "for mac" inside windows 7.

For example I swipe over to the desktop that has windows 7 up and running. I'm wanting to record some information "data" from this windows program but I don't want to swipe back and forth from viewing the data and then back to the document editor to type it down. Hope I'm making it clear.

Okay, you are wanting to be in a Windows 7 session, with Mac Office running on top in a window?

I think it is possible in Parallels 9 but I haven't tried it. It may require Coherence mode for that.
 
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