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llamacrew

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Is Office MAC OK to use on my new MACBOOK PRO. I am in the military and bring work home all the time. Microsoft word, excell, powerpoint and access are the programs I use... I am really familiar/comfortable with the office set up. What is the concensus
Thanks
Llamacrew
 
covertyows said:
nvm then. as far as compatibility, how well does open office work? normally I don't care if I use office or not, but as I am in school and at times must make presentations and write papers that I can send to professors, having files taht are compatible with the school software is important.
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I can't give any specifics, because I don't know what really caused the problems. It was mostly images I think.
 
mac version of office (office 2008) works fine and is advertised to be 100% compatible with the windows version. I have it and use it on a regular basis, and it seems fine. Spaces compatibility is lacking, though. You'll see what I mean. Open office has the same problem, though, so it must be an osx thing. Compared to the windows version, it has more similarities to 2003 than 2007. It has no ribbon at the top, instead it uses the old school bars. There's a demo, i think, so just try that out before you buy it. Regardless, office 2008 is by far the best office product for mac in my opinion.
 
I have Mac version of Office on my MBP and it works perfectly well; most of the people I work for use Windows, so it is absolutely necessary for me to be able to have compatibility.

Cheers and good luck
 
Office for Mac works fine. It has received some bad press and I'm not saying those who take issue with it are wrong. I am just saying from my experience that I purchased office when I bought my first Mac to use Word and Excel like I did on Windows and it essentially does this for me without issue.
 
covertyows said:
nvm then. as far as compatibility, how well does open office work? normally I don't care if I use office or not, but as I am in school and at times must make presentations and write papers that I can send to professors, having files taht are compatible with the school software is important.
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Why don't you convert them to pdf before you send them to professors? Converting any document to pdf is really simple on a Mac (just hit apple-P for print and choose save as pdf).
 
r.j.s said:
The offer was for US Army personnel only, but it is expired.
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A lot of times you can get it for free through school, as well. I'm a medical student, and Mac OS, Windows, Mac MS Office, and Windows MS Office are all available for free.
 
Office 08 is ok. But if you use excel for any stats, its trash. Office 08 has not VBA. I was so mad when i got it, and then i needed excel for a class. I ended up having to get parallels and using reg ol windows office.
 
I love iWork too, easily converted but it's missing a lot of font compatibility between Office + iWork and that might be a problem for the OP.
 
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