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decafjava

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Feb 7, 2011
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I am running a Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015 iMac on 10.13.3

I have a main admin account I use plus a guest account. Although I don't usually work from home I was wondering if it would be possible to set up a second work account to separate any work (for my university) from my personal (my other projects and my entertainment which I keep on my main account).

What I want in the second account besides storing documents (like student essays) I was wondering if it would be possible to download and use a separate version of MS Office? When I bought my computer in January I got a single license of Ms Office 2016 with Word, Excel and Powerpoint to use for my private use and the consulting business I am in the process of setting up. My work has access to Office 365 which I use with my work email account at the office, I can access the web version at home but wonder if it's possible to install a second instance of the subscription version of MS Office?
 
Installations of MS Office are system-wide.Uer settings\preferences are stored in each user's path to ensure unique settings for each user on the machine.

So, go into Users & Groups Preferences and add another account with Admin rights on the Mac. Then login and customize to your needs.
 
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