Changing from PC to Mac

[01.charlesj.10]

Before the end of the month I have to get a new computer. Now I have a Dell with XP. I want to get a Mac Book. What I want to know if the invoices I've generated in MS office 2003 will work in the Mac Book. I will get MS Office for the MB will I be able to transfer the invoices. Also I have a lot of work pics on the PC that I will want on the MB...Will that work. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[MacDawg]

Your pictures should be fine across platforms
What format are they?

Your MS Office docs should be fine with MS Office for Mac (Office 11 is coming soon)
But it is not strict compatibility, so there could be some tweaks necessary

Other Office alternatives are OpenOffice and NeoOffice (free and open source)
Also Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Check out the info here on switching

 

[r.j.s]

What Office 2003 app do you use to generate the invoices? If it is Word, then, yes, they will wok with Office:mac.

 

[PhelpsiPhan]

What Office 2003 app do you use to generate the invoices? If it is Word, then, yes, they will wok with Office:mac.

Office for Mac is a great program, you'll love it

 

[01.charlesj.10]

Thanks for the reply's....They told me at the Mac store that there should be not problem also but when I tried to move some from the PC to my wife's MB using a memory stick the Mac said it couldn't read it & she has MS office on her MB.

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks for the reply's....They told me at the Mac store that there should be not problem also but when I tried to move some from the PC to my wife's MB using a memory stick the Mac said it couldn't read it & she has MS office on her MB.

It depends on the format of the memory stick. That issue has nothing to do with Office for Mac or Office for Windows.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer